We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

                       —Calvin Coolidge

The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential importance the principles of their party organization; but he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best.

               —Rutherford B. Hayes

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.                 —Richard Nixon

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss… The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. —Theodore Roosevelt

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

                        —Ronald Reagan

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

                          —Harry Truman

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

                   —Martin Van Buren

I like the job. That’s what I’ll miss the most… I’m not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I’ve liked it.

                                – Bill Clinton

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right.

                        – Lyndon Johnson

Indecision is often worse than wrong action.                – Gerald Ford

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. – William Howard Taft

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damn business.              —Chester A. Arthur

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales.

             – Franklin D. Roosevelt

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

                    —Abraham Lincoln