Famous quotes by Presidents

"The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so, by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct)"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off"

William Henry Harrison, President

"I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer"

William Henry Harrison, President

"To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity"

William Henry Harrison, President

"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed"

William Henry Harrison, President

"Rural exoduses are not to be avoided by prohibiting access to cities, but by helping young people and adults to have equal access to dignity, well-being, decent housing, education, culture, health, and also the joy of living"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"As long as we can face the struggle for peace within our countries, peace between our countries, peace between our countries and the rest of the world, then we will have served Africa"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"True happiness is appreciated only when lost"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"The world is too small to tolerate isolationism and withdrawal. Never have countries, however far apart, however different, been more supportive of each other"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"As a gift from heaven, and at the same time a burden imposed on us by our condition as men, the child represents our most precious capital, and society must protect it from the dangers and the vagaries of life"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"What the Ivorian wants is the sharing of wealth and not misery, and to do so, he must, above all, contribute to creating these riches"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"Nowadays, no doubt, more than in the successive epochs that humanity has traversed, world peace is indivisible"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"A miracle, like a bet, is prepared, it is conditioned, it is measured, it is decided and it is realized by force of will and perseverance"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"There will be no peace as long as force appears the only possible remedy to resolve intolerable situations"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

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