presidents-of-the-united-states

"Herbert Hoover, March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933"

"Harry S. Truman, April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953"

"James Buchanan, March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861"

"Calvin Coolidge, August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929"

"George H. W. Bush, January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993"

"John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963"

"Andrew Jackson, March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837"

"Franklin Pierce, March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857"

"Grover Cleveland, March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889"

"Warren G. Harding, March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923"

"Richard Nixon, January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974"

"Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989"

"Barack Obama, January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017"

"Donald Trump, January 20, 2025 — present"

"Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809"

"John Quincy Adams, March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829"

"John Tyler, April 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845"

"Millard Fillmore, July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853"

"Ulysses S. Grant, March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877"

"Chester A. Arthur, September 19, 1881 – March 4, 1885"

"William McKinley, March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901"

"Woodrow Wilson, March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921"

"Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961"

"Lyndon B. Johnson, November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969"

"Gerald Ford, August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977"

"Jimmy Carter, January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981"

"Bill Clinton, January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001"

"George W. Bush, January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009"

"Donald Trump, January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021"

"Joseph Biden, January 20, 2021 – January 20, 2025"

"George Washington, April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797"

"John Adams, March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801"

"James Madison, March 4, 1809 – March 4, 1817"

"James Monroe, March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825"

"Martin Van Buren, March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841"

"William Henry Harrison, March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841"

"James K. Polk, March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849"

"Zachary Taylor, March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850"

"Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865"

"Andrew Johnson, April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869"

"Rutherford B. Hayes, March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881"

"James A. Garfield, March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881"

"Benjamin Harrison, March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893"

"Grover Cleveland, March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897"

"Theodore Roosevelt, September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909"

"William Howard Taft, March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913"

"Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945"

"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much as you propose. If, to-day, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, "I see no probability of the British invading us" but he will say to you "be silent; I see it, if you dont."The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood."

"We need our presidents to appreciate and be polite to other cultures and leaders. But the president of the United States is the leading political figure in the world. He must command respect. Let others bow to him."

"In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?"