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** It is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington. ** Blood running in the streets, Credit ruined, credit related strikes, unemployment, shortages of food, the wheels of government clogged, and we are descending into a valley of confusion and darkness. ** Such is my situation that if I were to put the bitterest curse on an enemy this side of the grave I would put him in my place. I see the impossibility of doing any essential service to the cause by continuing in command, and yet I am told that if I quit the command inevitable ruin will follow from the distractions that will ensue. In confidence I tell you that I never was in such a divided, unhappy state since I was born. George Washington. ** Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light George Washington ** The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. George Washington ** It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. George Washington John AdamsOur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ~ John Adams The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. ~ John Adams The happiness of society is the end of government. ~ John Adams All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. ~ John Adams Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. ~ John Adams Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ~ John Adams The 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 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ~ John Adams Fear is the foundation of most governments. ~ John Adams Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ~ John Adams I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. ~ John Adams I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ~ John Adams Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. ~ John Adams The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. ~ John Adams When people talk of the freedom
of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but
laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now
exists; but I hope it will exist. |
Fine Print: The pictures on this page have been rendered by Lin Stone, and so being, are not to be copied. Please find your own originals. Thomas JeffersonAs the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in reason, morality, and the natural fitness of things. Thomas Jefferson Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. -- Thomas Jefferson
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth that he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Thomas Jefferson The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson. I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. Thomas Jefferson All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. Thomas Jefferson. To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. -- Thomas Jefferson Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. -- Thomas Jefferson *** If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams **
I am not a politician, but if I were, I should be a New York politician. ~ Andrew Jackson The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. Andrew Jackson Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Andrew Jackson When Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory, died, someone asked, Will he go to Heaven? and the answer was, He will if he wants to. |
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln *** You'd make a great diplomat if you didn't talk quite so much. Abraham Lincoln ** He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. ~ Abe Lincoln *** I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. I will not shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, and refuse to touch a wily agitator who induces him to commit the crime. ** Success does not so much depend on external help as on self-reliance. Abraham Lincoln ** Children can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it easier than they can get out after they are in. A. Lincoln ***
*** No scheme of amelioration (of our ills) has the least chance of success unless and until the money ceases to be the master and becomes the servant of mankind, thus that no financial barrier is ever again interposed between man and his ability to create wealth. Abraham Lincoln *** I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Abraham Lincoln ***
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
*** I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. Abraham Lincoln *** Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. ~ Abraham Lincoln +++ During the Civil War a dispatch came to the
President announcing the capture of fifty mules and two brigadier
generals by Stuart's cavalry. What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. ~ Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left (behind) by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln. *** No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and for his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Abraham Lincoln I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. Abraham Lincoln
My paramount object in this struggle is to save
the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I
could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I
could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could
save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. -- Abraham Lincoln. Click Here for a few words from Jefferson Davis, also an American president, serving at about the same time as A. Lincoln. I have published a free romantic novel about Jefferson Davis that will really open your eyes. The same author has written The Southerner, an epic novel that I believe is the best historical novel about Abraham Lincoln I shall ever read.
“It is the eternal struggle between two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world… It is the same spirit that says ‘you toil and work and earn bread, and I’ll eat it.’ No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.” Abraham Lincoln, spoken during a debate with Stephen Douglas in 1858. |
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. ~ Ulysses S. Grant Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. ~ U. S. Grant Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. ~ Ulysses S. Grant I know only two tunes: One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't. ~ Ulysses S. Grant “I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say - the stream of talk at headquarters - but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans” ~ Ulysses S. Grant No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works. ~ Ulysses S. Grant I cannot afford to quarrel with a man whom I have to command. ~ Ulysses S. Grant I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again. ~ Ulysses S. Grant Hold fast to the Bible. . . . To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. ~ Ulysses S. Grant Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. ~ Ulysses S. Grant I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. ~ Ulysses S. Grant I never heard him (President Lincoln) abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition. ~ Ulysses S. Grant As time passes, people, even of the South, will begin to wonder how it was possible that their ancestors ever fought for or justified institutions which acknowledged the right of property in man. ~ Ulysses S. Grant I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life ~ Ulysses S. Grant While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend. ~ Ulysses S. Grant Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupied no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate 'war, pestilence, and famine,' than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun. ~ Ulysses S. Grant As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle. ~ Ulysses S. Grant
Chester A. Arthur Acting independently of party dogma, Chester A. Arthur, our 21st President tried to lower tariff rates so the Government would not be constantly embarrassed by annual surpluses of revenue. Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. Grover Cleveland ** The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government, its functions do not include support of the people. Grover Cleveland A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor & the fact that honor lies in honest toil.” - Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland remains the only President elected twice.. 4 years apart Grover Cleveland, our 22nd and 24th President, he appeared on the one-thousand dollar bill, which is no longer in circulation. *** Millard Fillmore was the first president to have running water in the White House. *** President McKinley.. by Theodore Roosevelt. William McKinley, our 25th President, appeared on the five-hundred dollar bill, which is no longer in circulation. He was also the 1st president to ride in an automobile (a steam-powered Locomobile) and to campaign for office by telephone. William McKinley wanted America to return to the gold standard; He was assassinated. Waiting to die he was the first President to be X-rayed, and also the first President to have air conditioning in the White House. *** It is better to be faithful than famous. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he recently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. *** My men were children of the dragon's blood, and if they had no outland foe to fight and no outlet for their vigorous and daring energy, there was always the chance of their fighting one another: but the great majority, if given the chance to do hard or dangerous work, availed themselves of it with the utmost eagerness! Theodore Roosevelt *** It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth whether about the president or anyone else -- save in the rare cases where this would make known to the enemy information of military value which would otherwise be unknown to him. *** I saw more than one,
both among the officers and privates, burst into tears when he found he
could not go (into battle). No outsider can appreciate the bitterness of
the disappointment. Of course, really, those that stayed were entitled
to precisely as much honor as those that went. Each man was doing his
duty, and much the hardest and most disagreeable duty was to stay.
Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very
often the accident of glory. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt. Speak Softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal. Theodore Roosevelt The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. Theodore Roosevelt I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also. Theodore Roosevelt Editor's note.. the Canal was an inspiration of Abraham Lincoln *** The welfare of the farmer The world is not going to be saved by legislation. Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
Failure to
accord credit to anyone for what he
may have done is a great weakness in
any man. Politics makes me sick. Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
I do not
believe in the divinity of Christ,
and there are many other of the
postulates of the orthodox creed to
which I cannot subscribe. We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. - William Howard Taft William Taft was the first president to own a car. William Taft is the only president to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1921-1930)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. - Woodrow Wilson You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. ~ Woodrow Wilson It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Woodrow Wilson I believe in democracy because it releases the energies of every human being. Woodrow Wilson Energy in a nation is like Sap in a tree, it rises from the bottom up. Woodrow Wilson There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. Woodrow Wilson Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Woodrow Wilson I had rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail. Woodrow T. Wilson To such a task we dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.... The world must be made safe for democracy. Woodrow Wilson. The day has come to conquer or submit. We will not submit; we will vanquish. ~ Woodrow Wilson When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. ~ Woodrow Wilson *** Silent Cal seems to have said much, quite well.. There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime. Calvin Coolidge The business of America is business. Calvin Coolidge After order and liberty, the economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government. Calvin Coolidge It is only when men began to worship that they begin to grow. Calvin Coolidge The foundations of society and of our government rests on the teachings of the Bible, that it would be difficult to support them, if faith in these teachings should cease To Be practically universal in this country. Calvin Coolidge I do not choose to run. Calvin Coolidge 1928 I've never been hurt by something I didn't say. Calvin Coolidge I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them. ~ Calvin Coolidge Press on. Nothing can take the place of persistence. Calvin Coolidge If you see ten problems, nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. Calvin Coolidge Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. Calvin Coolidge Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Calvin Coolidge Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~ Calvin CoolidgeNo person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been rewarded for what he or she gave. - Calvin Coolidge We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge The foundation of our independence and our government rests upon our basic religious convictions. Calvin Coolidge I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. — Calvin Coolidge Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow. Calvin Coolidge “Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” - Calvin Coolidge The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential. - Calvin Coolidge Never go out to meet trouble. ~ Calvin Coolidge Parchment will fail, the sword will fail, it is only the spiritual nature of man that can be truimphant. Calvin Coolidge To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. -- Calvin Coolidge “Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong” Calvin Coolidge The foundation of our independence and our government rests upon our basic religious convictions. Calvin Coolidge I favor the American system of enterprise, and I am opposed to any general extension of government ownership and control." Cal Coolidge There's no greater service we can render the oppressed of the earth than to maintain inviolate the freedom of our own citizens. C Coolidge The collection of taxes which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is a species of legalized larceny, Calvin Coolidge There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means. ~ Calvin Coolidge |
Herbert Hoover (31st) was the first president born west of the Mississippi. http://twitter.com/#!/Presidentfacts Prosperity is just around the corner.- Herbert Hoover Be patient and calm for no one can catch fish in anger. -Herbert Hoover About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ~ Herbert Hoover Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt --Herbert Hoover Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. - Herbert Hoover I suggest that the United Nations be reorganized without the communist nations in it. Herbert Clark Hoover
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are a rich Nation; we can afford to pay for security and prosperity without having to sacrifice our liberties into the bargain. FDR
a fair sized book for your reading pleasure. FDR The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt *** The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt. Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman My choice early in life was to either be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. .. there's hardly any difference. -Harry S. Truman A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. -- Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was the first president to give a speech on television. Harry Truman signed executive orders to desegregate the armed forces based on race. We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.” ~ Harry S Truman It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. ~ Harry S. Truman Its amazing what you can accomplish when you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. ~ Harry S. Truman I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. ~ Harry S Truman If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Harry S. Truman ***
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. Dwight D. Eisenhower I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.. When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. Hitting people over the head is assault, not leadership. Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. Dwight D. Eisenhower *** We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true. - Barry Goldwater, not quite a president. *** John F. Kennedy If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy This country can not afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. John F. Kennedy We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy This country does not forget God Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. JFK Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ~ JFK Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John F. Kennedy *** Lyndon B. Johnson was the first American president to name an African American to his cabinet. If one morning I walked across the Potomac on top of the water, the headline that afternoon would say, “President Johnson can't swim!” Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. Lyndon B. Johnson The noblest search is the search for excellence. - Lyndon B. Johnson Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.-Lyndon B. Johnson Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time ~ Lyndon B. Johnson At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education. Lyndon B. Johnson Emphasis added. While you're saving your face, you're losing your (behind). Lyndon Johnson A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. ~ Richard M. Nixon Richard M. Nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states and the first president to visit China. When the president does it, that means it's not illegal. - Richard M. Nixon If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.- Richard M. Nixon It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. Richard M. Nixon. Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. -- Richard M. Nixon The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. ? Richard M. Nixon Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. -Richard M. Nixon Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. Richard M. Nixon The people have a right to know whether or not their president is a crook! Well, I'm not a crook! Richard M. Nixon I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. Richard M. Nixon |
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| Gerald Ford:
If the government is big enough to
give you everything you want, it is
big enough to take away everything
you have. I always felt that what I was doing would prepare me for the next opportunity. -- Gerald R. Ford I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators Gerald R. Ford If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. - Ronald Reagan "The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted
-- Sometimes when we reach for the stars, we fall short ~ Ronald Reagan You won't get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There's only one ...way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time... It's a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun controllers. I happen to know this from personal experience. - Ronald Reagan Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." - Ronald Reagan I do not want to go back to the past. I want to go back to the past way of looking at the future. Ronald Reagan. All great change in America begins at the dinner table" - Ronald Reagan We cannot allow our children to continue falling behind. Instead, we must insist that all American students master the basics, math, science, history, reading and writing that have always formed the core of our civilized nation. What is needed, is for children to do more work and better work, and that includes homework. No learning can take place without good order in the classrooms and that means restoring good old-fashioned discipline. In too many class rooms teachers lack authority to make students take tests, hand in homework or even quiet down in class. Ronald Reagan Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong. - Ronald Reagan Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. Ronald Reagan The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - Ronald Reagan *** Bill Clinton Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution. -- Bill Clinton When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. Bill Clinton There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. Bill Clinton We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes went down and their taxes went up. Bill Clinton *** Barak Obama There's new energy to
harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to
build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, Huh. It works. It makes sense. Barack Obama We can’t be discouraged by what is. We’ve got to keep pushing for what ought to be, the America we ought to leave to our children ~ Barack Obama |
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