President+Quotes

What do you know about America's Presidents?
[|George Washington] "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

[|John Adams] "I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house (the White House) and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!"

[|Thomas Jefferson] "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."

[|James Madison] "The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect."

[|James Monroe] "The American continents, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." [|John Quincy Adam] "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." [|Andrew Jackson] "I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way; but I am not fit to be President." [|Martin Van Buren] "It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." [|William Henry Harrison] "But I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free." [|John Tyler] "Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality." [|James Knox Polk] "With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses." [|Zachary Taylor] "For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory. . ." [|Millard Fillmore] "An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory." [|Franklin Pierce] "The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution." [|James Buchanan] "There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution." [|Abraham Lincoln] "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." [|Andrew Johnson] "Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide." [|Ulysses Simpson Grant] "My failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent." [|Rutherford Birchard Hayes] "Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking. [|James Abram Garfield] "We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government." [|Chester Alan Arthur] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"Good ballplayers make good citizens." [|Stephen Grover Cleveland] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out." [|Benjamin Harrison] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith." [|William McKinley] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime—to set an example—and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history." [|Theodore Roosevelt] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does nothing." [|William Howard Taft] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . ." [|Thomas Woodrow Wilson] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." [|Warren Gamaliel Harding] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"Ambition is a commendable attribute without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils." [|John Calvin Coolidge] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"The business of America is business." [|Herbert Clark Hoover] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents." [|Franklin Delano Roosevelt] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." [|Harry S. Truman] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it." [|Dwight David Eisenhower] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"America is best described by one word, freedom." [|John Fitzgerald Kennedy] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." [|Lyndon Baines Johnson] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right." [|Richard Milhous Nixon] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself." [|Gerald Rudolph Ford] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." [|James Earl Carter, Jr.] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation." [|Ronald Wilson Reagan] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth." [|George Herbert Walker Bush] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"If anyone tells you that America's best days are behind her, they're looking the wrong way." [|William Jefferson Clinton] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America." [|George Walker Bush] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"We will bring the terrorists to justice; or we will bring justice to the terrorists. Either way, justice will be done."