Some United States presidents have shared smart and sometimes funny thoughts that have stayed with people. A user asked the forum, “What’s your favorite quote from a president?” Here are the top responses.
GO TO THE MOON
“We choose to go to the moon and do these things not because they are easy but hard.”
HUNGER AND ARE NOT FED
“Eisenhower said, ‘Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.'”
ORDERS TO BE AWAKENED
“I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting. – Ronald Reagan.”
DON’T HAVE TO EAT BROCCOLI
“I’m the President of the United States, and I don’t have to eat broccoli if I don’t want to. – George Bush.”
RUNNING A CEMETERY
“Being President is like running a cemetery; you’ve got a lot of people under you, and nobody’s listening. – President Bill Clinton.”
WOOED SEVERAL GENTLEMEN
“James Buchanan said, ‘Now solitary and alone, having no companion in the house with me. I have wooed several gentlemen but have not succeeded with any of them.
I feel that it is not good for man to be alone, and I should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.'”
NOTHING WRONG WITH AMERICA
“There is nothing wrong with America that can’t be fixed by what is right with America. – Bill Clinton.”
ALL MEN ARE EQUAL
“All men are equal before fish. – Herbert Hoover.”
WILL NOT MAKE AGE AN ISSUE
“I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience – Rowdy Reagan.”
NUCLEAR WAR
“A nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought.”
REMAIN SILENT
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln.”
LITTLE TROLLING
“‘It’s called we do a little trolling.’ I only recently learned that Trump said this; for the longest time, I thought it was just a meme.”
PLENTY OF SUBJECT MATTER
“I have never attacked him on his looks, but believe me, there’s plenty of subject matter there.”
SECEDE YOUR HEAD
“John Caldwell Calhoun, if you secede from my nation, I will secede your head from the rest of your body – Andrew Jackson.”
VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS
“I’ll have them ‘racial black term’ voting democrats for 200 years. – Lyndon B Johnson.”
FUN IS HAVING LOTS TO DO
“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. – Andrew Jackson”
TWO-FACED
If I were two-faced, would I be showing you this one? – Abraham Lincoln.”
BORN IN THE HOUSE THAT MY FATHER BUILT
“I was born in the house my father built. – Richard M Nixon, opening line of his autobiography.”
TOUGH HURRICANE
“This is a tough hurricane. One of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. – Trump.”
HOT DAY
“Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. – Harry Truman.”
DO WHAT YOU CAN
“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt.”
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