Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1485
AUTHOR:
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842–c. 1914)
QUOTATION:
PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom—and of whom only—it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
ATTRIBUTION:
AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil’s Dictionary, p. 266 (1948). Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic’s Word Book.
