An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward 'Gentlemen let there be no mistake. I should make a good president but a very bad candidate.'
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
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Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may...
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward 'Gentlemen let there be no mistake. I should make a good president but a very bad candidate.'
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
