Presidency Quotes and Quotations
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. I would rather be right than President. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him. My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
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