Presidential Quotes - Page 36

• No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

  Theodore Roosevelt

  President, Enjoyed

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• No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

  Martin Van Buren

  Evil, Slavery, Results

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• We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

  Herbert Hoover

  Justice, Social, Destruction

  Herbert Hoover (2005). “American Individualism”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Bring us together again.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Together Again, Together

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 31 Oct. 1968

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• The great silent majority.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Majority, Silent, Silent Majority

  Address to the Nation on VietnamWar, 3 Nov. 1969. The term silent majority is found as early as 1870, when the Economist (19 Nov.) referred to "the silent majority which so seldom appears at the polls." See Petronius 2; Edward Young 1

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• I will never lie to you.

  Jimmy Carter

  Lying, Never Lie

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• Two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Two, Energy

  Remarks at town meeting, Bardstown, Ky., 31 July 1979, referring to a speech on energy and national goals broadcast 15 July 1979.

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• Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.

  James K. Polk

  Teaching, Exercise, Government

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• I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

  James K. Polk

  Sovereign, Term, Servant

  Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.331, Best Books on

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• The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel. We are committed to Israel's survival and security. The United States for a quarter of a century has had an excellent relationship with the State of Israel. We have cooperated in many, many fields - in your security, in the well-being of the Middle East, and in leading what we all hope is a lasting peace throughout the world.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Israel, Survival, Middle East

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  College, Years, Land

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.124, Best Books on

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• I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in public schools, given our Constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. I feel that the highly desirable goal of religious education must be principally the responsibility of church and home. I do not believe that public education should show any hostility toward religion, and neither should it inhibit voluntary participation, if it does not interfere with the educational process.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Religious, Prayer, Educational

  Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford (1979). “The Presidential Campaign 1976: President Gerald R. Ford. 2. v”

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• The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Other Cultures, People, Support

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• ...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Responsibility, Promise

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• Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Development, Doe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.119, Vintage

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• I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, College, Men

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• Want More Advice Like This?

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Advice, Want

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• There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

  James K. Polk

  Independent, Oregon, California

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• Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Given, Duty, Expected

  Theodore Roosevelt's address to the nation (March 4, 1905), as quoted in "Ten Memorable Inaugural Addresses", www.realclearpolitics.com. January 16, 2013.

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• Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally, I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what the loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Teaching, Mean, Loss

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• We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas

  Will Rogers

  New Year, Xmas, Years

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• New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way. The last Republican president wasn't even fluent in English.

  David Letterman

  Long, Chinese, Way

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• President Obama, by the way, is, I think, making his first presidential European trip. And while he's there in Europe, he plans to fire the CEO's of BMW and Volkswagen.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Fire, Bmw

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• Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Insane, Done

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• When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?

  George Will

  Book, Kansas, Patterns

  "Dems Vs. Wal-Mart". www.jewishworldreview.com. September 14, 2006.

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