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Quotes by President
"I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency."
48
"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
48
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
46
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
46
"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny."
45
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
45
"Never spend your money before you have earned it."
44
"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."
44
"I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors."
Will,
44
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
44
"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States."
42
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
41
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
40
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
40
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
40
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
39
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
39
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
39
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
38
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
38
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
37
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
37
"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us."
37
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
36
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
35
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
34
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
34
"A man without a vote is man without protection."
33
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
33
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
32
"The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition."
32
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
32
"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
32
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