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I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President and I think I will go along with them.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933To Ethel Barrymore, as quoted in Greenberg, David (2006)
- Presidency
The president cannot escape from his office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Presidency
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV, in a section titled Tryanny of the Majority.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Liberty
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XVII.
- Christianity
- Liberty
PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary.
- Presidency
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 1, part 2, chapter 8, p. 270 (1969). Originally published in 1835–1840.
- Laws
When American(s) ask for the cooperation of (their) fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
A President cannot always be popular.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972
- Presidency
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972
- Presidency
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter II.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Freedom
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Arthur Campbell (1797)
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me ‘the writer of the Constitution of the United States.’ This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.
James Madison1751–1836
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)