American Quote by Robert Dallek

“Americans tend to prefer their presidents on horseback: heroes who dream big and sound trumpets. There is, however, another kind of leader – quieter…

— Jon Meacham

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach…

— Helen Thomas

We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at…

— H. L. Mencken

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly…

— Donald Trump

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

— Michael Beschloss

American presidents are moral leaders and role models as much as they're political leaders and heads of state - they are meant to model…

— Jamelle Bouie

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him,…

— Richard M. Nixon

When you look at the development of the American presidency, you see that the presidents who have had the greatest impact are the ones…

— H. W. Brands

Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a…

— Barack Obama

Deeply versed in history, [John Adams] said over and over that America had no special providence, no special role in history, that Americans were…

— Gordon S. Wood

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have…

— Robert Dallek

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the…

— Jill Lepore