On this page are various quotes made by presidents past and present.

• “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” - George Washington
• “The happiness of society is the end of government.” - John Adams
• “One man with courage is a majority.” - Thomas Jefferson
• “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” - James Madison
• “A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.” - James Monroe
• “May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.” - John Quincy Adams
• “I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.” - Andrew Jackson
• “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.” - Martin Van Buren
• “But I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.” - William Henry Harrison
• “Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.” - John Tyler
• “With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.” - James Knox Polk
• “Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.” - Zachary Taylor
• “An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.” - Millard Fillmore
• “But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom.” - Franklin Pierce
• “The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among freemen.” - James Buchanan
• “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” - Abraham Lincoln
• “The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.” - Andrew Johnson
• “My failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.” - Ulysses Simpson Grant
• ”Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking.” - Rutherford Birchard Hayes
• “If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.” - Chester Alan Arthur
• ”A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out.” - Stephen Grover Cleveland
• “We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.” - Benjamin Harrison
• “In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.” - William McKinley
• “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” - Theodore Roosevelt
• “Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.” - William Howard Taft
• “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” - Thomas Woodrow Wilson
• “I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.” - John Calvin Coolidge
• “Peace is not made at the Council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.” - Herbert Clark Hoover
• “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• “You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it.” - Harry S. Truman
• “America is best described by one word, freedom.” - Dwight David Eisenhower
• “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” - Lyndon Baines Johnson
• “Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.” - Richard Milhous Nixon
• “I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.” - Gerald Rudolph Ford
• “We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.” - James Earl Carter, Jr.
• “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” - Ronald Wilson Reagan
• “Don’t try to fine-tune somebody else’s view.” - George Herbert Walker Bush
• “There is nothing wrong in America that can’t be fixed with what is right in America.” - William Jefferson Clinton
• “If you don’t feel something strongly you’re not going to achieve.” - George Walker Bush
• “We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.” - Barack Hussein Obama
• “When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.” - Donald John Trump
• “We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.” - Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.