Quotes by Presidents

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. Jimmy Carter
Love Good Prevail Nature Peace Honor Will Our Earth Gifts Outdoors Beauties Joys Forever Children Realize Teach Here
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant. Jimmy Carter
People Own Our Define Paramount Insignificant Tendency Condemn Sins Being Different Us Who
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed. Jimmy Carter
God People Blessed Own Rich Being Rich Believe President Ought Ability Self Delusion Idea Powerful Self-Delusion Because Always Opponent Were Being Your Who Element Deserve Among Compatible
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. John Adams
You Fate Mind Own Our Ruin Give My Own House House Of Representatives Accepted May Representatives Children Warning Your Thereby Prepare Seat Consented
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me. John F. Kennedy
Me Speak Church Party Matters President Democratic Also Catholic Does Am Candidate Happens Public Who
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. John F. Kennedy
Work Men Invent Believe Back Those Machines Out Put New Talent
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. John F. Kennedy
Fitness Physical Fitness Increasing Softness Our Security Physical Menace Lack Growing
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. John F. Kennedy
Intelligence Think Out Some More Hot New Days Times Get York Reports New York New York Times
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. John F. Kennedy
Freedom History Welcome World Responsibility Long Few Danger Only Long History Generations Hour Been Role Maximum Granted Shrink Defending
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. John F. Kennedy
Strength Difficulty Ease Risk Potential Directly Investment New Economy Obtaining Ventures Affects Mobility Tax Experienced Gains Decisions Capital Capital Gains Thereby Growth Flow
To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible. John Quincy Adams
Time You Bible Reading Scarcely Give Habit Fail Employment Read Equally Occupation Itself Reflecting Efficacy Than Susceptible Essential Being Which Useful
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. Lyndon B. Johnson
Family Business CIA Made Princeton Brokerage Boy Up Families Sent Them Whose
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known. Ronald Reagan
You Generation Opportunities Will Further Beyond Known Because Than Goes Anything Shoulders Stands Each Each Generation Ever
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan
Government Best Business Intelligence Minds Would Steal Were Any Them Away
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. Ronald Reagan
Money Philanthropist Able Cat Never Democratic Understand Been Contributor Same Republican Why Amount Fat
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Ronald Reagan
Today Oppression East Civilization Poland Doing West Being Center European
The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best. Rutherford B. Hayes
Best Country Party President Mindful States Strive Fact He Always His Should Who United United States Serve
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. Theodore Roosevelt
Death Suffering Only Absence Same
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. Thomas Jefferson
Education Clouds Darkness Mind Dissipate Penetrate Must General Strengthened
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. Thomas Jefferson
People Power Responsible Leave Existing Authority
Taste cannot be controlled by law. Thomas Jefferson
Legal Law Taste Controlled Cannot
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. William J. Clinton
Work Dignity People Independence Free Sense Living Our Independent Vital About More Free People Making Making A Living Self-Worth Than Human Human Dignity Useful Fundamental
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Woodrow Wilson
Great Women Equality Opportunity Men Men And Women Control Consequences Industrial Alter Women And Children Children Cannot Which Processes Social Lives Cope
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. Woodrow Wilson
Overcome Challenge Men Only Obstacle Does Frighten Brave Brave Men Them Use
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson
Politics Conservative Doubt Changes Someone Makes His When In Doubt Grandmother Who
I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors. Ulysses S. Grant
Rebellion Nothing Only Armed Deal Opinions
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