45 Quotes From Each Of Our 45 Presidents
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45 Quotes From Each Of Our 45 Presidents

“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”

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45 Quotes From Each Of Our 45 Presidents
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Since claiming our independence in 1776, America has seen 45 presidents, some average, some great, some forgotten, and some famous worldwide. Regardless, each and every man has had his share of words in office. Here is a list of just one memorable quote from all U.S. presidents.

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." – George Washington

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." – John Adams

"When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred." – Thomas Jefferson

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary." – James Madison

"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil." – James Monroe

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams

"One man with courage makes a majority." – Andrew Jackson

"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens." – Martin Van Buren

"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.' – William Henry Harrison

"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality." – John Tyler

"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights." – James K. Polk

"Never judge a stranger by his clothes." – Zachary Taylor

"It is not strange... to mistake change for progress." – Millard Fillmore

"Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion." – Franklin Pierce

"What is right and what is practicable are two different things." – James Buchanon

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln

"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people." – Andrew Johnson

"I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other one isn't." – Ulysses S. Grant

"The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best." – Rutherford B. Hayes

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old." – James Garfield

"Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken." – Chester Arthur

"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves." – Grover Cleveland

"Great lives never go out; they go on." – Benjamin Harrison

"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history." – William McKinley

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood." – William Howard Taft

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." – Woodrow Wilson

"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration;... not surgery but serenity." – Warren G. Harding

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." – Calvin Coolidge

"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism." – Herbert Hoover

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know." – Harry S. Truman

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." – Dwight D. Eisenhower

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." – John F. Kennedy

"The noblest search is the search for excellence." - Lyndon B. Johnson

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard Nixon

"Truth is the glue that holds government together." - Gerald Ford

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America." - Jimmy Carter

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life." - Ronald Reagan

"I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war." - George H. W. Bush

"You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle." - Bill Clinton

"I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." - George W. Bush

"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama

"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate." - Donald Trump

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