Quotes on Presidents Day

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.