I recently came across a large amount of presidential quotes from every president. These are my 10 favorite.
1. "I do precisely what I think just and right." -Andrew Jackson
Simple but powerful, Jackson sums up exactly what a president should do.
2. "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. " -Theodore Roosevelt
You hear that? Roosevelt himself said it.
3. "I have no patience with extreme Rightists who call everyone who disagrees with them a Communist, nor with the Leftists who shout that the rest of us are heartless moneygrubbers." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
I had no idea me and Eisenhower agreed on something.
4. "If you think too much about being reelected, it is very difficult to be worth reelecting." -Woodrow Wilson
Truer words were never spoken.
5. "I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them.....That's all the powers of the President amount to." -Harry S Truman
Do I have to explain?
6. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. " -Abraham Lincoln.
You really can't.
7. "I.....believe.......that just laws can make no distinction of privilege between the rich and the poor, and that when men of high standing attempt to trample upon the rights of the weak, they are the fittest objects for example and punishment. In general, the great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble, require the arm and shield of the law." -Andrew Jackson
What can I say, I like the guy.
8. "Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. " -Thomas Jefferson
Doesn't it though?
9. "Public Opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other. " -James K. Polk
Says what we know; Public Opinion keeps political officials in check.
10. "If it weren't for the people, I would make everything for the convenience of me. " -Charles H. Crawford
Pretty much the same as Polk's, but not quite as eloquent.