Quotes by President

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

I have not permitted myself gentlemen to conclude that i am the best man in the country but i am reminded in this connection of a story of an old dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I am rather inclined to silence and whether that be wise or not it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?