Presidential
Quotes

Peaceful efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime have failed gain and again-because we are not dealing with peaceful men.
- George W. Bush

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

Should we defeat every enemy, should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and a nation.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself, can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson

Sputnik doesn't worry me one iota. Apparently from what they say, they have put one small ball in the air.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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; that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln

The bill that I am presenting to you will be known as a civil rights bill. But, in a larger sense, most of the program I am recommending is a civil rights program. Its object is to open the city of hope to all people of all races. Because all Americans just must have the right to vote. And we are going to give them that right.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation.
- Woodrow Wilson