Famous quotes by Presidents

"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Taste cannot be controlled by law"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"War settles nothing"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first, a process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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