Quotes by Presidents - Page 4

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Abraham Lincoln
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?
Thomas Jefferson
No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses S. Grant
Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.
Abraham Lincoln
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Thomas Jefferson
As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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
He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
Abraham Lincoln
I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
Thomas Jefferson
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.
Abraham Lincoln
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln
Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
Abraham Lincoln
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson
Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
I succeed him no one could replace him.
Thomas Jefferson
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their functions and actions.
Thomas Jefferson
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
All authority belongs to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
F. D. Roosevelt
If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
Abraham Lincoln
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln
Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
Abraham Lincoln
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
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 up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when 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 legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.
Abraham Lincoln
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
Thomas Jefferson
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
Abraham Lincoln
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Thomas Jefferson
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.
Abraham Lincoln
When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
Abraham Lincoln
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.
Thomas Jefferson