Actually, while some US presidents may have repeated it, the proverb itself is traced back to Benjamin Franklin, who was never a president but was widely-known and beloved as an inventor and an author.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
it wasn't a president. it was King.
The President that first said all men are created equal was Thomas Jefferson. He was the third president of the United States.
Reagan
The President is sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.