Updated October 04, 2019
Andrew Jackson: "Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."
William Henry Harrison: "There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."
Abraham Lincoln: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
Ulysses S. Grant: "Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor."
Rutherford B. Hayes: "One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals."
Benjamin Harrison: "Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds."
William McKinley: "The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."
Theodore Roosevelt: "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life, we get nothing save by effort."
William H. Taft: "Don't write so that you can be understood; write so that you can't be misunderstood."
Woodrow Wilson: "No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation."
Warren G. Harding: "I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an e******n."
Calvin Coolidge: "Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
Herbert Hoover: "America—a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose."
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself."
Dwight D. Eisenhower: "When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were—to the very last minute—a chance to lose it."
John F. Kennedy: "Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."
Lyndon B. Johnson: "For this is what America is all about: It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground."
Richard Nixon: "A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
Jimmy Carter: "Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease."
Bill Clinton: "We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons."
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