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Quotes by President
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
99
"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."
93
"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
92
"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."
89
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
88
"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
87
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
86
"Never spend your money before you have earned it."
85
"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
85
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
85
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
84
"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
84
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
84
"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."
84
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses."
82
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
80
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
79
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
79
"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."
78
"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny."
77
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
77
"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."
76
"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
76
"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."
76
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
75
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
74
"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."
74
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
73
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
73
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
72
"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
72
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
72
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