President Quotes - Page 12

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

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.

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

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

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.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

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

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.

When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

Most presidents have been controlled by forces that control money and special interests. When Donald Trump refused their money, he refused their control. This made him dangerous.

The question is are you loyal to the agenda that [Donald] Trump, that President-elect Trump has put forward in terms of his view of the world and the person to which the secretary of state would function.

[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.

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.

Above all, tell the truth.

For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory. . .

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

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.