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
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“We choose to go to the moon and do these things not because they are easy but hard.”
HUNGER AND ARE NOT FED
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“There is nothing wrong with America that can’t be fixed by what is right with America. – Bill Clinton.”
ALL MEN ARE EQUAL
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“All men are equal before fish. – Herbert Hoover.”
WILL NOT MAKE AGE AN ISSUE
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“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
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“A nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought.”
REMAIN SILENT
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“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln.”
LITTLE TROLLING
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“‘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
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“I have never attacked him on his looks, but believe me, there’s plenty of subject matter there.”
SECEDE YOUR HEAD
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“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
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“I’ll have them ‘racial black term’ voting democrats for 200 years. – Lyndon B Johnson.”
FUN IS HAVING LOTS TO DO
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“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. – Andrew Jackson”
TWO-FACED
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If I were two-faced, would I be showing you this one? – Abraham Lincoln.”
BORN IN THE HOUSE THAT MY FATHER BUILT
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“I was born in the house my father built. – Richard M Nixon, opening line of his autobiography.”
TOUGH HURRICANE
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“This is a tough hurricane. One of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. – Trump.”
HOT DAY
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“Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. – Harry Truman.”
DO WHAT YOU CAN
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“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt.”
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This article was originally published on Mrs. Daaku Studio.