Famous quotes by Presidents

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in"

Harry S. Truman, President

Harry S. Truman

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"

Harry S. Truman, President

Harry S. Truman

"My administration is the only thing between you [CEOs] and the pitchforks"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"Elevate those guns a little lower"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power"

James Madison, President

James Madison

"The business of America is business"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other"

James A. Garfield, President

James A. Garfield

"I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio"

Gerald R. Ford, President

Gerald R. Ford

"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came"

Jefferson Davis, President

Jefferson Davis

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"You have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

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