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Quotes by President
"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
79
"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."
77
"Never spend your money before you have earned it."
75
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
75
"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
73
"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."
71
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses."
70
"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
69
"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."
68
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
66
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
66
"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
66
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
66
"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny."
65
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
65
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
65
"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."
64
"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."
63
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
62
"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."
62
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
62
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
62
"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."
62
"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."
61
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
60
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
60
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
59
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
59
"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."
59
"Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you."
59
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