Presidential
Quotes

I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never yet, and never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.
- Richard Nixon

I want a kinder and gentler nation.
- George H. W. Bush

I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it. I will not yield. I will not rest. I will not relent.
- George W. Bush

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

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln.
- Gerald Ford

I'm not going to be the first American president who loses a war.
- Richard M. Nixon

If anybody thinks Americans have lost the capacity for love and caring and courage, they ought to come to Oklahoma.
- Bill Clinton

If I have in any degree forgotten what America was intended for, I will thank God if you will remind me. I was born in America. You dreamed dreams of what America was to be, and I hope you brought the dreams with you. No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
- Woodrow Wilson

If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have country, and that a free country.
- John Adams