President Quotes

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

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

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

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

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.