Quotes by Presidents

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future. Jimmy Carter
Future Better Will Country Our Once Obama Joe Record Examined Better Future Facts Lead Performance Policies Am Been Reviewed Confident Again Barack Barack Obama Elected Beloved Beloved Country
My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman. Jimmy Carter
President Harry Favourite Admired Most Truman
Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton. Jimmy Carter
You First Met President Had Know Democratic Well Been Clinton Bill Bill Clinton Farmer Who Ever Peanut
I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.' Jimmy Carter
Home Knowledge Bible Experience Book Sunday Year Down Every Every Sunday Jimmy Jimmy Carter Claim Out Carter Minutes About Through New Most New Book Knowledgeable Them Page Theology Teach Lessons
It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth. Jimmy Carter
Government People Believe Difficult Our Earth Also Very American American People Richest
I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind. Jimmy Carter
Degree Superior Energy Other President Presidents Kind Carter Some Environment Primarily Feel Because Affairs Domestic Role Center Former Working International International Affairs Activism Things Conservation
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state. Jimmy Carter
Conservative Goals Church Party Gone Doubt Separation Christian State Church And State No Doubt More Always Bed Been Republican Republican Party Elements Believed Right Christian Right
I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally - and I still feel that way. Jimmy Carter
Gay People Way Favor Marry Feel Always Still Permitted Been Legally Being Personally Who
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. John Adams
Affliction Furnace States Individuals Well Refinement Produces
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. John F. Kennedy
War Age World Law Mass Self-Determination Prefer Extermination World War
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. John F. Kennedy
Education Best Degree Worlds Harvard Both Both Worlds Yale Said Graduation Might Now
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space. John F. Kennedy
Space Tossed Over Wall America Cap
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. John F. Kennedy
Politics You Women Nervous Politicians Active About Rather Talk Talked Always How Want Whether Who
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness. John Quincy Adams
Christian Weakness Folly Principle Effect According Vice
Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them. John Tyler
Life Real Life Ruin Pleasure Followed Temptations More Poets Adorned Pointed Until Smiles She Known Real Perpetual Been Clothed Them Hollow Richest Who Many Painters Showy Ever Her Jewels
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. John Tyler
You Thought Elude Apt Aptly Embrace More She Always May Woo Your Popularity Compared Her
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. John Tyler
Wealth Savings Earnings Only Industry Accumulate Frugality
Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with success, it stands forth an example to the world and exhibits the proudest triumph of reason and philosophy. John Tyler
Success Politics Government World Example Experiment Our Considered Philosophy Triumph Crowned Longer Proudest Form Forth Reason Stands
We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If we be true to ourselves, the glory of other nations, in comparison to ours, shall resemble but a tale from the days of chivalry. John Tyler
Be True Other Our Resources Unlimited Destinies Ours Ourselves Direct Unbounded Shall True Tale Days Glory Continent Nations Chivalry Mighty Means Resemble Comparison
It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised. John Tyler
People Responsibility Seen Solemn Those High Charged Powers Executive Been Fit Chief Chief Executive Confide Clothed Which
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives! John Tyler
Nation Thomas Thomas Jefferson Melancholy Solemn Hath Longer Announced Tidings Discharge Loud Artillery Dismal Jefferson Lives Bell
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. Lyndon B. Johnson
Learning Poverty Must Escape Offer Bar
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence. Lyndon B. Johnson
Generation Nation Believe Destiny Excellence Rendezvous Your
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. Lyndon B. Johnson
Great Opportunity Rich Society Only Great Society Toward Powerful Move Upward
When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. Lyndon B. Johnson
Wake Up Dinner Lunch Boy Wake Up Vietnam Congo Cyprus
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. Lyndon B. Johnson
Man Matter Made Big Every Enough Presidency Small He Demands Occupied How Big Enough Than Bigger Who Every Man
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