Search results for Historical Period: 20th-21st century.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business.

Chester A. Arthur

A public office is a public trust.

Attributed to Roman law and American statesmen

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Benjamin Harrison

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

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The world must be made safe for democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Herbert Hoover

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt