Browsing Topic Best Presidential Quotes

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

That government is best which governs least.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Committing American lives to defend these Arab dictatorships is far more scandalous than an embarrassing presidential handshake with the Saudi crown prince.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Politics make me sick

Man can not live by bread alone … he must have peanut butter.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court – Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito – has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

There are four great measures for my administration – a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.

The happiness of society is the end of government.