Quotes by Presidents

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart. Ronald Reagan

You Heart Because Reagan His Loves

As friends go it is less important to live. Rutherford B. Hayes

Important Live Go Friends Less

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. Rutherford B. Hayes

Radical Principle Sound Element Right Suffrage Universal Universal Suffrage

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. Rutherford B. Hayes

Man Every State Ruined Corporation Out City Town County Debt Debtor Times Get Hard Hard Times Village Keep Every Man

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. Rutherford B. Hayes

Happiness Political Independence Other Bother

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. Rutherford B. Hayes

Education Good Business First Sense Energy Think Good Sense Point Qualities Am West West Point Than Required Requisite Less

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. Theodore Roosevelt

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson

Natural Men Virtue Aristocracy Talents Grounds Among

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. Thomas Jefferson

Bitterest Foes Friend Injured

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. Thomas Jefferson

Mind Abhorrent Prospect Most Gloomy Without Decay Human Bodily Body

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. Thomas Jefferson

Politics Men Ambition Govern Office Thankless Painful

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. Thomas Jefferson

Government Our Principles Conquest Inconsistent

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. Thomas Jefferson

War Entirely Wrong Instead Toward Instrument Inefficient Losses

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. Thomas Jefferson

Government Man Every Strongest Part Feels Himself Which Every Man

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. Thomas Jefferson

Hope Despair Dream Cheap Gloom Always Been Than Theory

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. Thomas Jefferson

Government First Honorable Easy Misery Splendid Office Second

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. Thomas Jefferson

Liberty Despotism Expect Translated