| Quote | President |
| 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.' | |
| 'Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.' | |
| 'A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.' | |
| 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' | |
| 'In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.' | |
| 'The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does nothing' | |
| 'Peace is not made at the Council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.' | |
| 'We need not fear the expression of ideas—we do need to fear their suppression.' | |
| 'America is best described by one word, freedom.' | |
| 'There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America.' | |
| | Quote | President |
| ' A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.' | |
| ' Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.' | |
| '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.' | |
| ' The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.' | |
| 'One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.' | |
| 'The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' | |
| 'The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ' | |
| 'The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. ' | |
| 'Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. ' | |
| 'There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.' | |
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