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 Calvin Coolidge
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve;...
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only...
Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience...
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
