Quotes by Presidents - Page 2

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
Thomas Jefferson
Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
Thomas Jefferson
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.
Abraham Lincoln
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
F. D. Roosevelt
The sun - my almighty physician.
Thomas Jefferson
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.
Ulysses S. Grant
A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.
Thomas Jefferson
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Thomas Jefferson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
Abraham Lincoln
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
Herbert Hoover
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
Important principles may and must be flexible.
Abraham Lincoln
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
Freedom of conscience of education of speech of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
F. D. Roosevelt
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
John Quincy Adams
If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
Abraham Lincoln
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.
Herbert Hoover
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
Thomas Jefferson
Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
Thomas Jefferson