Presidential
Quotes

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?
- Ronald Reagan

If the Negro, is a man, then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal" and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
- Abraham Lincoln

If we are to serve as a beacon for human rights we must continue to perfect here at home the rights and values we espouse around the world. A decent education for our children, adequate medical care for all Americans, an end to discrimination against minorities and women, a job for those able to work and freedom from injustice and religious intolerance.
- Jimmy Carter

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
- John F. Kennedy

In the truest sense freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance.
- Woodrow Wilson

It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution as it is of the supreme judges.
- Andrew Jackson

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is richer for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is our duty, I must respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans.
- Woodrow Wilson