Quotes by Presidents

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson
Happiness Life Government Good Destruction Care First Object Only Human Human Life Good Government
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams
Whatever State Our Evidence Stubborn Facts Wishes Alter Passions Dictates May Cannot Things
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy
Leadership Learning Other Indispensable Each
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt
Best You Decision Wrong Thing Nothing Right Thing Worst Worst Thing Wrong Any The Right Thing Next Moment Right Thing
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. Abraham Lincoln
God Side Our Concern Greatest Always Sir Whether Right
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson
Motivational Hope You Achievement Yourself World Vision Live Living Enrich Finer Spirit More Merely Make Greater Enable Errand Forget Order Here
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace Fight Going Even
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Ronald Reagan
Everyone Someone Help
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan
Government Words Language Most Terrifying Help English English Language Here
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln
Character Reputation Think Tree Shadow Like Real Real Thing Thing
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
Happiness Happy Minds Folks Most Make Make Up Up
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 exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln
Government People Weary Country Constitutional Constitutional Right Shall Institutions Exercise Existing Overthrow Amending Revolutionary Whenever Inhabit Who Grow Right Belongs
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. George Washington
Liberty Plant Rapid Rapid Growth Take Begins Root Growth
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson
You Will Action Define Know Want Ask Act Who
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kindness People Free Tough Nation Fiber Weakened Free People Never Cruel Does Human Stamina Human Kindness
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. John F. Kennedy
Success Survival Patriotism Liberty Burden Oppose Nation Pay Every Assure Meet Foe Bear Shall Price Support Wishes Know Well Friend Any Whether Us Ill Hardship Every Nation
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness Achievement Creative Joy Lies Thrill Effort Happiness Lies
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln
Politics Stronger Bullet Ballot Than
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower
War Made Gun Sense Every Cold Final Those Hunger Fed Fired Rocket Clothed Theft Who
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. John F. Kennedy
Great Achieve Those Dare Fail Greatly Who
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington
Truth Prevail Light Will Ultimately Where Pains Bring
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. Franklin D. Roosevelt
History Progress Add Enough Our Those More Abundance Test Provide Whether Little Much Who
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson
Rights Equality Liberty Law Will Action Add Others Our Tyrant Rightful Drawn Individual Equal Equal Rights Because Within Around Always Limits According Often Us Violates
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Harry S Truman
Patriotism Courage Determination Fear Job Imagination Unbeatable Built Hand America
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. Abraham Lincoln
Education Government Generation School Will Philosophy Room Next
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy
Fear Negotiate Out Never Us Let Us
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