President Takes Oath

Famous quotes containing the words president, takes and/or oath:

    “You don’t need to know who’s playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.”
    —James Baker (b. 1930)

    “I did not know that thou wert dead before;
    I did not feel the grief I did sustain;
    The greater stroke astonisheth the more;
    Astonishment takes from us sense of pain.
    I stood amazed when other’s tears begun,
    And now begin to weep when they have done.”
    —Henry Constable (1562–1613)

    “Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart is an oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)