| Quote | President |
| 'We will bring the terrorists to justice; or we will bring justice to the terrorists. Either way, justice will be done.' | |
| 'That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.' | |
| 'A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.' | |
| 'There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America.' | |
| 'With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.' | |
| | Quote | President |
| 'Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.' | |
| 'Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been a | |
| 'I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way; but I am not fit to be President.' | |
| 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.' | |
| 'And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.' | |
| | Quote | President |
| 'America is best described by one word, freedom.' | |
| 'If anyone tells you that America's best days are behind her, they're looking the wrong way.' | |
| 'We need not fear the expression of ideas—we do need to fear their suppression.' | |
| 'The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person | |
| 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' | |
| | Quote | President |
| 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.' | |
| 'To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treason | |
| 'I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.' | |
| 'Some people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.' | |
| 'As to the Presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.' | |
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