Presidential Quotes

Presidential Quotes

September 5, 2010


What convinces is conviction.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson


What the man in the street wants is not a big debate on fundamental issues; he wants a little medical care, a rug on the floor, a picture on the wall, a little music in the house, and a place to take Molly and the grandchildren when he retires.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson


What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealings by the other peoples of the world, as against force and selfish aggression.
- Woodrow Wilson


When you buy peace at any price it is always on the installment plan for another war.
- Richard Nixon


Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
- George W. Bush


With God's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us. And, after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans.
- Ronald Reagan


With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.
- Abraham Lincoln


You ain't learnin' nothing; when you're talkinn.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson


You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are non under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.
- George Washington