1791 quotes by presidents for you to enjoy

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. George Washington

Experience Pride Illusion Nation Ought Must Favors Calculate Discard Greater Real Error Cure Expect Than Just Which

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception. George Washington

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. Gerald R. Ford

Needs Together People Win Election Backwards Year Late Way We Cannot Slip Though Must Except Still Go Anybody Cannot Urgent Stand Forward Even Now Serving

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Grover Cleveland

People Masters Agents

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. Herbert Hoover

Government Business Important Out Just Keep

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. Herbert Hoover

Prosperity Restored Cannot Public Treasury

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. James A. Garfield

Worth Luck Pluck Pound Ton Chance

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. James K. Polk

Government Character Our Seem True True Character Powers Foreign Foreign Powers Appreciate

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. James Madison

Needs Political Liable More Wrong Majority Opinion Than Maxim Current In My Opinion Which Interest Standard Therefore Right Right And Wrong

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. James Madison

Alone Constitution Nation Sense Entirely Propriety Accepted Concur Legitimate Which

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary. James Monroe

Government Knowledge Men Weaknesses Makes Vices Many Necessary

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. Jimmy Carter

Christ Live Our Our Lives Though Coming Were Afternoon Should Lives

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. Jimmy Carter

Too Worship Tend Self Consumption Indulgence Us Many Now

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved. Jimmy Carter

People Abortion Result Live Every Think Changed President Ought Everything Ruling Minimize Possibly Horrible Could Part Maintain Announced Involved Wade Still Errors Roe Did Which Series Need

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. Jimmy Carter

Genius is sorrow's child. John Adams

Genius Sorrow Child

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure? John F. Kennedy

Man Construction Competition Matter Space Moon First Become National Research States Immense Involved Soviet Soviet Union Expenditure To The Moon Should Flight Union Preparing United Why United States

A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her. John Tyler

World Word Nation Sense Every Others Ruin Markets Misery Look Off Dependent Cut England Manufacturing Await Her

I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land. John Tyler

Best Me Happy Prosperity Rich Furnish Pleased Earth Evidence Would See Prosperous Nations Native Native Land Land Should

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. Lyndon B. Johnson

Education Problem Opportunity

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. Lyndon B. Johnson

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me. Lyndon B. Johnson

Me Important Party Too States System Small Remain Parties Fellow Likes Republican Republican Party Who United United States Two-Party Suit

Quotes by Presidents