President's Words

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

We are a nation of communities.. A brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Go out on a limb. Thats where the fruit is.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

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

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

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!

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.