We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip
the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word
with which to carry an election.
Warren Harding
Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
Power naturally grows. Why? Because human passions are insatiable.
John Adams
My choice in life was to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician.
And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
Harry Truman
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
No public man can be just a little crooked.
Herbert Hoover
People who have had a hanging in the family don't like to talk about rope.
Calvin Coolidge
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a frieght car.
But if has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
No emotion cools sooner than that of gratitude.
Benjamin Harrison
Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland
If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.
Chester Arthur
I know only two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle, and the other isn't.
Ulysses S. Grant
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods
or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson
If I am killed, I die but once, but to live in constant dread of it,
is to die over and over again.
Abraham Lincoln
All of the quotes are from
an earlier edition
of this book.
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