Great Presidents Quotes - Page 4

• We need a great president.

  Donald Trump

  President, Needs

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• George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

  Mitt Romney

  President, Walkers

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• I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.

  Jim Clyburn

  Thinking, President, Bills

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• The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.

  George Friedman

  Running, Long, President

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• We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Imagination, Wife, President

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.615, Stanford University Press

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• Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  President, Saint

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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