President Quotes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside.

If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.

We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.

People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

If you want to test a man’s character give him power.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens.

There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.