Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.
When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.
The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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