The Presidents said it

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- Thomas Jefferson

And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln

And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
- John F. Kennedy

Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
- George H. W. Bush

For relief and deliverance let us firmly rely on that kind Providence which I am sure watches with peculiar care over the destinies of our Republic, and on the intelligence and wisdom of our countrymen. Through His abundant goodness and their patriotic devotion our liberty and Union will be preserved.
- Andrew Jackson

For years, politicians have promised the moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.
- Richard Nixon

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed-else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom is still expensive. It still costs money. It still costs blood. It still calls for courage and endurance, not only in soldiers, but in every man and woman who is free and who is determined to remain free.
- Harry S. Truman

I believe President Nixon-like Abraham Lincoln-is a man uniquely suited to serve our nation in a time of crisis.
- Gerald Ford

I believe that the officers, and especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.
- Theodore Roosevelt

I have never claimed to be better or wiser than any other person. I think my greatest strength is that I am an ordinary man.
- Jimmy Carter

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. We shall not be poor if we love liberty.
- Woodrow Wilson

If anybody thinks Americans have lost the capacity for love and caring and courage, they ought to come to Oklahoma.
- Bill Clinton

In the truest sense freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is their cry for freedom, it may truly be said, the voice of the people is the voice of God.
- Grover Cleveland

No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.
- Ronald Reagan

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The tax system is a disgrace to the human race. I believe all income should be treated the same. It's a scandal that a businessman can deduct his fifty-dollar lunch but a worker can't deduct the sandwich in his lunch pail.
- Jimmy Carter

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
- Andrew Jackson

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We cannot...restore the American family until we provide the structure, the values, the discipline, and the reward that work gives.
- Bill Clinton

When you buy peace at any price it is always on the installment plan for another war.
- Richard Nixon

You ain't learnin' nothing; when you're talkinn.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson