Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Presidency

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American Civil Liberties Lawyer

I’d rather be right than President.
Henry Clay (1777–1852) American Politician

My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on the seventh of July. He was a boy of much promise, proficient in his studies, with a scholarly mind, who had just turned sixteen.
He had a remarkable insight into things.
The day I became President he had just started to work in a tobacco field. When one of his fellow laborers said to him, if my father was President I would not work in a tobacco field, Calvin replied, If my father were your father, you would….
We do not know what might have happened to him under other circumstances, but if I had not been President, he would not have raised a blister on his toe, which resulted in blood poisoning, playing lawn tennis in the South Grounds.In his suffering he was asking me to make him well. I could not.
When he went the power and the glory of the Presidency went with him.
The ways of Providence are often beyond our understanding. It seemed to me that the world had need of the work that it was probable he could do.
I do not know why such a price was exacted for occupying the White House.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. 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 treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about anyone else.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Explorer

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.
Henry Adams (1838–1918) American Historian, Man of Letters

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren’t. I can say that, because I wasn’t one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he’s the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
Max Lerner (1902–92) Russian-born American Journalist

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln’s dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man’s face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.
Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader

When Ronald Reagan’s career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.
Gore Vidal (1925–48) American Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Playwright

The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
Walter Bagehot (1826–77) English Economist, Journalist

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
Alexander Hamilton (c.1757–1804) American Federalist Politician, Statesman

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

The President is the people’s lobbyist.
Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) American Journalist, Political Satirist

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
Bob Dylan (b.1941) American Singer-songwriter

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
Vaclav Havel (1936–2011) Czech Dramatist, Statesman

I’m the only president you’ve got.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader

All the president is is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

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