Presidential Quotations Flashcards
Lyndon B. Johnson on the presidency
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Thomas Jefferson on history
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
Thomas Jefferson on the presidency
a place of splendid misery
John Quincy Adams on the presidency
(I could) scarcely conceive a more harassing, wearying, teasing condition of existence (than the presidency)
Andrew Jackson on the presidency
dignified slavery
Warren G. Harding on the presidency
It’s Hell! No other word to describe it.
Abraham Lincoln on the presidency
No man is good enough to govern another. . . without that other’s consent.
George Washington on the presidency
In our progress towards political happiness my station is new; and if I may use the expression, I walk on untrodden ground.
George Washington on political parties
. . . potent engines, by which cunning,ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.
Abrahham Lincoln on public support
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. 
Franklin D. Roosevelt, start of first fireside chat , March 12, 1933
My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.
