I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to labor.... There's not much else you can say about Harrison except that he was president of the United States.

If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. The fantastically crowded nine months of 1945 taught me that a President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt I could let up for a single moment.

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

I can always get along with an honest friend.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.