| Quote | President |
| 'Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsib | |
| 'The bud of victory is always in the truth.' | |
| 'The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.' | |
| 'America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.' | |
| 'I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.' | |
| 'One man with courage makes a majority' | |
| 'It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.' | |
| 'Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.' | |
| 'It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.' | |
| 'The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.' | |
| '[That all] men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' | |
| 'The world must be safe for democracy.' | |
| 'I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.' | |
| 'Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.' | |
| 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' | |
| 'All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.' | |
| 'An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.' | |
| '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 case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Missis | |
| 'I like the noise of democracy.' | |
| 'No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.' | |
| 'I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.' | |