Presidential Quotes - Page 2

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.