Famous Presidential quotes

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the worst thing you can do is nothing

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety

Liberty once lost it’s lost forever

Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people

The constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keep in their own arms

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything

How on earth did you do that with the same 24 hours a day that everyone else gets?

Among the many objects to which wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention that providing for their safety seems to be the first

If freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one

Deeds not words

New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the constitution and that was enough to make the constitution the law of the land

Whatever you are be a good one

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it

I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

If you want something you’ve never had you must be willing to do something you’ve never done

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery

One man with courage is a majority

When angry count to 10 before you speak if very angry count to 100

When you come to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on

Be polite to all but intimate with you

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you’re going to do

The most valuable all of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do

He who knows best knows how little he knows

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits

There is nothing more unequal and equal treatment of an equal people

Whenever you do a thing act as if the world were watching

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure until you know there is no hook beneath it

In matters of style swim with the current in matters of principle stand like a rock

No free man shall be debarred the use of arms

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics and religion and philosophy as a cause for withdrawing from a friend

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants

Every citizen should be a soldier this was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state

The earth belongs to the living not the dead

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good

Thomas Jefferson