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Quotes by President
"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment."
16
"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
15
"I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor."
15
"The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble."
15
"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
15
"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."
15
"In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average."
15
"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
15
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
15
"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."
15
"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
15
"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."
15
"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true."
15
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
15
"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."
15
"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."
15
"Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far."
15
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
15
"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."
15
"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."
15
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
15
"It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud."
15
"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman."
15
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