1. George Washington (1789-1797)

"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."

2. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

3. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

4. James Garfield (1881)

"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."

5. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb ... Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

6. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)

“So, 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.”

7. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

8. Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

"The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep."

9. George W. Bush

"Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.”

10. Barak Obama

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”