Presidential Quotes

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote.

If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Above all, tell the truth.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

Let them impeach and be damned.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

Tell him to go to hell.

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.