Top 49 Polk Quotes
#1. General Polk, who was dignified and corpulent, walked back slowly, not wishing to appear too hurried or cautious in the presence of the men, and was struck across the breast by an unexploded shell, which killed him instantly.
William T. Sherman
#2. After acquiring Texas, Polk deliberately started a war with Mexico because, as he later told the historian George Bancroft, we had to acquire California. Thanks to Polk, we did.
Gore Vidal
#3. I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character
Oscar Zeta Acosta
#4. Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
Robert Toombs
#5. The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#6. All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
James K. Polk
#7. I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.
James K. Polk
#8. Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
James K. Polk
#9. The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.
James K. Polk
#10. We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.
James K. Polk
#11. Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
James K. Polk
#12. There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
James K. Polk
#13. No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.
Willis Polk
#14. The child doesn't just live in his environment, it becomes a part of him.
Paula Polk Lillard
#15. If a man ... would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.
James K. Polk
#16. Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon the child's learning through the senses.
Paula Polk Lillard
#17. Although ... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
James K. Polk
#18. General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.
James K. Polk
#19. The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
James K. Polk
#21. Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.
William R. Polk
#22. It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits ...
James K. Polk
#23. Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
Willis Polk
#24. Adults must aim to diminish their egocentric and authoritarian attitude toward the child and adopt a passive attitude in order to aid in his devleopment.
Paula Polk Lillard
#25. I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.
James K. Polk
#26. When I observed a strong man approaching I generally took advantage of him by being a little quicker than he was and seizing him by the tip of the fingers, giving him a hearty shake, and thus preventing him from getting a full grip upon me.
James K. Polk
#27. Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.
James K. Polk
#28. adult's role is to "teach children limits with love or the world will teach them without it.
Paula Polk Lillard
#29. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James K. Polk
#30. The child must be given activities that encourage independence, and he must not be served by others in acts he can learn to perform himself.
Paula Polk Lillard
#31. The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.
James K. Polk
#32. No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.
James K. Polk
#33. Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
Willis Polk
#34. With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.
James K. Polk
#35. Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.
Charles W. Carey Jr.
#36. Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
James K. Polk
#37. Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.
James K. Polk
#38. In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.
Willis Polk
#39. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
James K. Polk
#40. There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.
James K. Polk
#41. If AC voltage drops below 105-volts or goes above 130-volts you should turn electronic equipment and appliances off until the power is restored.
Mark Polk
#42. Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
James K. Polk
#43. A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.
Peter J. Wetzelaer
#44. No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
James K. Polk
#45. To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
Willis Polk
#46. I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
James K. Polk
#47. The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
James K. Polk
#48. God can take the ashes of your life and exchange them for beauty
Sharon Polk
#49. It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
James K. Polk
