Great Presidents Quotes

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

We need a great president.

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves this country. And he's going to be a great president of the United States.

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

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.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

Liberty in the United States will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural feats and therefore tolerate a virtually unlimited exercise of presidential power. Until we can restore limited, constitutional government in this country, God save us from great presidents.

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

One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. So most people agree that one of the worst stains on the reputation of FDR, who is widely considered a great president, is the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Likewise, Lincoln is judged harshly for the suspension of habeas corpus.

He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.