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Quotes by President
"I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law."
37
"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."
37
"The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits."
37
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
37
"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back."
37
"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man."
37
"No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics--the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem."
37
"I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad."
37
"It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion, that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts."
37
"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."
37
"It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government."
37
"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."
37
"It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens."
37
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
37
"I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio."
36
"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
36
"The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation."
36
"Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."
36
"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."
36
"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us."
36
"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty."
36
"To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute."
36
"And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
36
"An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins."
36
"When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?"
36
"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
36
"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
36
"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling."
36
"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed."
36
"I am president now, and tired of being kicked around."
36
"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
36
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