Presidential
Quotes

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy

No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election.
- Theodore Roosevelt

No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States.
- George Washington

No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.
- Ronald Reagan

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct.
- George Washington

Of course, people cannot contribute to the Nation if they are never taught to read or write, if their bodies are stunted from hunger, if the sickness goes untended, if their life is spent in hopeless poverty just drawing a welfare check. So we want to open the gates to opportunity. But we are also going to give all our people black and white, the help that they need to walk through those gates.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country.
- George W. Bush

Only when the human spirit can worship, create and build, only when people are given a personal stake in determining their own destiny and benefiting from their own risks do societies become prosperous, progressive, dynamic and free. We need only open our eyes to the economic evidence all around us. Nations that deny their people opportunity, Eastern Europe, Indochina, southern Africa, and Latin America, without exception are dropping further behind in the race for the future.
- Ronald Reagan

Others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them.
- Richard M. Nixon

Our own freedom and growth have never been the final goal of the American dream. We were never meant to be an oasis of liberty and abundance in a worldwide desert of disappointed dreams. Our Nation was created to help strike away the chains of ignorance and misery and tyranny wherever they keep man less than God wants him to be.
- Lyndon B. Johnson