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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.