Presidential Quotes

Here is a collection of presidential quotes from various Presidents of the United States. Some are wise quotes, some are funny quotes, some are witty quotes, all are presidential quotes. Enjoy!

Presidential Quote Collections

• Abraham Lincoln Quotes


• Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Presidential Quotations

"It is common sense to take a method and try it;
if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt


"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
- Harry S. Truman


"The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust."
- Abraham Lincoln


"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."
- Abraham Lincoln


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


"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."
- John F. Kennedy


"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free."
- Abraham Lincoln


"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
- Barack Obama


"I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. We shall not be poor if we love liberty."
- Woodrow Wilson


"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."
- Lyndon B. Johnson


"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."
- George Washington


"Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt


"Look on this picture of happiness and honor and say, We too are citizens of America."
- Andrew Jackson

More Presidential Sayings

"The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice."
- Theodore Roosevelt


"I have never claimed to be better or wiser than any other person. I think my greatest strength is that I am an ordinary man."
- Jimmy Carter


"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
- Ronald Reagan


"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
- Herbert Hoover


"Politics is the art of the possible."
- Lyndon Baines Johnson


"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
- Calvin Coolidge


"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."
- Andrew Jackson


"It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."
- Abraham Lincoln


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