Martin Van Buren– “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.”
William Henry Harrison– “The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital…if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.”
John Tyler– “Everything dependent on human action is liable to abuse.”
James K. Polk– “There is more selfishness and less principles among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the US.”
Zachary Taylor– “I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish – nothing to serve but my country.”
Millard Fillmore– “May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”
Franklin Pierce– “You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.”
James Buchanan– “Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.”
Abraham Lincoln– “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Andrew Johnson– “I feel incompetent to perform duties…which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.”
Ulysses S Grant– “In every battle there is a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.”
Rutherford B. Hayes– “The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.”
James Garfield– “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
Chester Arthur– “Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.”
Grover Cleveland– “It is a condition which confronts us – not a theory.”
Woodrow Wilson– “The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.”
Warren G. Harding– “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.”
Calvin Coolidge– “When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
Herbert Hoover– “About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
Franklin Roosevelt– “First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
Harry Truman– “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
Dwight Eisenhower– “There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
John F. Kennedy– “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer. Let us not seek to blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”
Richard Nixon– “We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.”
Gerald Ford– “My fellow Americans, our long nightmare is over.” (We are waiting to hear those words again.)
Jimmy Carter– “Only at night can we see the stars, and the darker the night gets, the more stars we see.”
Ronald Reagan– “Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.”
George HW Bush– “I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.”
Bill Clinton– “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”
George W. Bush– “Our nation must come together to unite.”
Donald Trump– “The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.”
