Quotes by Presidents

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John F. Kennedy
Truth People Judge Nation Market Open Open Market Falsehood Afraid
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. Abraham Lincoln
Government Good Man Other Enough Another Another Man Without Govern Consent
It is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington
Alone Better Bad Than Company
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. Richard M. Nixon
You Valley Only Magnificent Highest Highest Mountain Know How Been Mountain Ever Deepest
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. Theodore Roosevelt
Government People Responsibility Allegiance Invisible Owing Behind Acknowledging
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. William J. Clinton
Life Adversity You Better Long Mistakes Live Enough Better Person Main Never Main Thing Never Quit Make Learn How Affects Handle Person Quit Them Thing
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln
Democracy Master Would Idea Expresses Slave
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
Man Furnish Tyrannical Abhors Propagation He Ideas Sinful Compel Funds
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. George Washington
Happiness Duty Moral Moral Duty Connected
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. Ronald Reagan
Success People Welfare Added How How Many People Leave Should Measure Many
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Andrew Jackson
Time Action Thinking Deliberate Take Go Stop
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. Ronald Reagan
People Problem Made Some People Marines Some Wonder Difference Lives
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Calvin Coolidge
Collecting More Absolutely Robbery Than Taxes Necessary Relatable
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politics Good Man Conservative Walk Never Perfectly Learned How However Legs Who Forward Two
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington
Friendship Adversity True Friendship Plant Slow Entitled Before Must Slow Growth True Undergo Withstand Shocks Growth
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. John F. Kennedy
Freedom Surrender Path Submission High Cost Shall Never Always American Paid Choose
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. Theodore Roosevelt
Good Citizen First Own Ours Willing Able Shall Weight He His Republic Requisite Good Citizen Pull
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Confidence Obligations Honesty Protection Honor Thrive Faithful Live Sacredness Unselfish Performance Without Cannot Them
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. George Washington
Prevail Religion Experience National Religious Morality Both Maintained Exclusion Indulge Supposition Forbid Principle Without Caution Expect Us Reason Let Us
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break. Harry S Truman
You Matter Men Free Parents Everyone More Know Equal Came Than American Being Where Break Created Your Even Belief Deserves
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership You Speak Will Big Softly Carry Stick Go Far
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fate Men Own Minds Only Prisoners
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. George Washington
Natural Revenge Party Despotism Spirit Horrid More Faction Sharpened Countries Leads Over Most Alternate Another Permanent Itself Domination Frightful Different Different Ages Formal Which Length Ages
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. Harry S Truman
Government Mind Men Matters Suicide Those Spirit Like Commit Afraid Being Want Regulate Avoid Assassination Who
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan
Great Intelligence Imagination Because Limits Wonder Human Human Intelligence Growth
I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson
Dangerous Believe More Sincerely Armies Than Banking Establishments Standing
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