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Quotes by President
"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
109
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
108
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
106
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
105
"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."
102
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
99
"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."
99
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
95
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses."
95
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
95
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
94
"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."
93
"Never spend your money before you have earned it."
92
"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
92
"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
91
"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."
90
"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."
90
"I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president."
89
"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."
88
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
88
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
88
"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."
88
"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
87
"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny."
86
"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
86
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
85
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
85
"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."
85
"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."
84
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
82
"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."
81
"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."
81
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