Presidential Quotes - Page 9

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

I'm going to be so presidential that you people will be so bored.

Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money.

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.

Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.

Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books