If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.
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George Buchanan
I would rather be right than President.
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Henry Clay
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
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Thomas Jefferson
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.
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Adlai Stevenson
More Quotes By Thomas Jefferson
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power...
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
