“[T]he Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”
—JOHN ADAMS
“The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department and also department orders, are herein expelled from the department within twenty-four hours from receipt of this order.”
—ULYSSES S. GRANT, issuing an order expelling all Jews from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi
“I have long since believed that in spite of all the vigilance that can be infused into post commanders, the special regulations of the Treasury Department have been violated, and that mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders. So well satisfied have I been of this that I instructed the commanding officers at Columbus to refuse all permits to Jews to come South, and I have frequently had them expelled from the department, but they come in with their carpet-sacks in spite of all that can be done to prevent it. The Jews seem to be a privileged class that can travel anywhere.”
—ULYSSES S. GRANT
“Really I’m almost homesick for you and Mamma and Mary. If I could only have stayed these two days in Kansas City instead of this Kike town, I’d have felt much better.”
—HARRY TRUMAN, after a visit to New York City
“We played five-cent poker and I won five dollars, the Costa Rican Minister lost ten and he screamed like a Jewish merchant. He is a Jew I think. At least he looks and talks like one.”
—HARRY TRUMAN
“The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish.”
—HARRY TRUMAN
“The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.”
—RICHARD NIXON
“The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.”
—RICHARD NIXON
“Every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it’s because most of them are psychiatrists.”
—RICHARD NIXON
“I don’t want any Jew at that dinner who didn’t support us in that campaign. Is that clear? No Jew who did not support us.”
—RICHARD NIXON, to his secretary, Rosemary Woods, before a state dinner for Israeli PM Golda Meir
“Most Jewish people are insecure. And that’s why they have to prove things.”
—RICHARD NIXON
“[G]enerally speaking, you can’t trust the bastards. They turn on us.”
—RICHARD NIXON
“I didn’t notice many Jewish names coming back from Vietnam on any of those lists; I don’t know how the hell they avoid it. If you look at the Canadian-Swedish contingent, they were very disproportionately Jewish. The deserters.”
—RICHARD NIXON
“As long as I’m sitting in the chair, there’s not going to be any Jew appointed to [the Supreme Court]. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal law issue.”
—RICHARD NIXON
“I’m a negotiator, like you folks.”
—DONALD TRUMP, to the Republican Jewish Coalition