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Quotes from United States Presidents. 35 people, 879 quotes.

Theodore Roosevelt1858–191975 quotes

Abraham Lincoln1809–186569 quotes

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–196971 quotes

George Washington1732–179941 quotes

John F. Kennedy1917–196368 quotes

Thomas Jefferson1743–182673 quotes

Ronald Reagan1911–200477 quotes

Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–194532 quotes

Harry S. Truman1884–197233 quotes

Andrew Jackson1767–18455 quotes

Calvin Coolidge1872–193339 quotes

John Adams1735–182634 quotes

George W. Bushborn 194639 quotes

Richard Nixon1913–199413 quotes

James Madison1751–183631 quotes

Bill Clintonborn 194618 quotes

Jimmy Carter1924–202414 quotes

Herbert Hoover1874–19644 quotes

Woodrow Wilson1856–192430 quotes

Benjamin Harrison1833–19012 quotes

Warren G. Harding1865–19231 quote

Lyndon B. Johnson1908–197320 quotes

John Quincy Adams1767–18485 quotes

Joe Bidenborn 19423 quotes

James Buchanan1791–18681 quote

George H. W. Bush1924–20185 quotes

Grover Cleveland1837–19083 quotes

Gerald Ford1913–200611 quotes

Ulysses S. Grant1822–188515 quotes

Rutherford B. Hayes1822–189310 quotes

William McKinley1843–19011 quote

James Monroe1758–18311 quote

Barack Obamaborn 196122 quotes

William Howard Taft1857–19302 quotes

Donald Trumpborn 194611 quotes

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Ask not what your country can do for you⁠—ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Patriotism
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.
- Liberty
- War & Peace
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Letter to Henry L. Sprague (26 January 1900)
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)
- America
- Politics
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)
- Guns
- War & Peace
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Citizenship in a Republic (1910)
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The Strenuous Life (1899)
- Success
The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Leadership
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Leadership
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Quote from a program at a Coolidge memorial service (1933); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999). The passage did not originate with Coolidge, but evolved over several decades, appearing as early as 1881 in a youth guidance book
- Motivation & Goals
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Leadership
- Risk
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas
- Leadership
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Bushrod Washington (15 January 1783)
- Friendship
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Leadership

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