“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, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Term, Presidency, End, Servant, Sovereignty
“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordin…”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: President, Duties, Leisure, Errors
“There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress, as well as others, than I had any conception [of], before I became President of the U.S.”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: selfishness, Principle, Congress, Government, President
“Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: God, Constitution, Connection, Church, state
“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, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Passion, Embarrassment, Government, Operation, voting