Quotes by Presidents

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. Jimmy Carter
War Peace Challenge White White House Cold Cold War Earth Destroy Weapons Entire Both Could Had Maintain House Soviet Soviet Union Confronted Union Nuclear Nuclear Weapons
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. Jimmy Carter
War Good Together Peace Sometimes Matter Will Evil Live Other Never Learn Always How May Children Each Necessary Necessary Evil
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. Jimmy Carter
Contagious Becomes Disease Aggression
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John F. Kennedy
Art Culture Vision Free Society Our Must Follow Takes Him His Artist Wherever Roots Nourish Set
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. John F. Kennedy
War Time Peace Generation Word Alike Bitter Torch Foe Has-Been Tempered Born New Disciplined New Generation Passed Go Been Friend American Place Century Forth Hard
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. John F. Kennedy
Life War Men Country Unfair Wounded Some Some Men Never Inequality Always Leave
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just. John F. Kennedy
War Peace Generation Hate World Strong Will Build Enough This Generation Weak Secure Never Had Had Enough Knows America American Just Where Want Start
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us. John F. Kennedy
Defeat Only Policy Foreign Foreign Policy Domestic Domestic Policy Us
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. John Quincy Adams
Honesty Men Long Believe Worse Would Would-Be Folly Something None Profess Honest
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. John Quincy Adams
Government Revolution Christianity Civil Civil Government Highest Principles Glory American American Revolution Connected Bond
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. Lyndon B. Johnson
Together Problems Few We Cannot Ourselves Solve No Problems Very Cannot
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it. Lyndon B. Johnson
You Presidency Once Nixon Take Hail Like Got Caught Just Being Storm Stand
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. Lyndon B. Johnson
You Losing Face Saving While Your
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. Martin Van Buren
Government Better Prosperity General Pursuits Private Interferes Less
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. Richard M. Nixon
Angry You Anger Those Respects See Only He Arouse Impression Get
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Ronald Reagan
Down Gorbachev Wall Tear
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. Ronald Reagan
Government Rights Only Individual Excuse Protecting Least Existing Us Even Among Basically
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? Ronald Reagan
Work Hard Work Take Never True Anybody Hard Figure Why Chance
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. Theodore Roosevelt
Work Man Only Leave Been Ages Mar
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson
Government Natural Progress Liberty Yield Gain Ground Things
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Thomas Jefferson
Evils Abolish More Than Accustomed Which While Forms Mankind Themselves Suffer Right
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. Thomas Jefferson
Truth World Fear Wish Unknown Would Existing Which Whole
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Thomas Jefferson
Friendship Peace Wish Our Pursue Wisest Policy Permitted May Mankind
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson
Happiness Mind Troubled Being Body
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson
War Generation World Own Pay Every Incumbent Would Principle Debts Goes Which Acted Wars Save
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. Abraham Lincoln
Time Best Man Closed Every Him His Lips Public Public Man Keep
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