- "Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. "
-- John Adams (1735-1826) - "It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. "
-- John Adams - "There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live. "
-- John Adams - "America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American. "
-- George W. Bush - "This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of WAR. "
-- George W. Bush - "Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. "
-- George W. Bush Address to the US after hijack attacks on the US World Trade Centers and Pentagon, September 11, 2001 - "I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it. I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people."
-- President George W. Bush - "What's the use of sending a $2 million missile into a $10 tent to hit a camel in the butt? "
-- George W. Bush - "More and more of our imports are coming from overseas. "
-- George W. Bush - "Not in French, nor English, nor Mexican."
-- George W. Bush - "Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that. "
-- William J. Clinton - "When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. "
-- William J. Clinton - "I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal "
-- William J. Clinton - "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. "
-- William J. Clinton - "I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. "
-- William J. Clinton - "I did not have sex with that woman. "
-- William J. Clinton - "Abortion should be safe, legal, and unneccesary. "
-- William J. Clinton - "I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal "
-- William J. Clinton - "No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war. "
-- President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) - "The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. "
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower - "The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office."
-- Herbert Hoover - 31st U.S. President - "About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
-- Herbert Hoover - 31st U.S. President - "Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."
-- Herbert Hoover - 31st U.S. President - "What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again."
-- Herbert Hoover - 31st U.S. President - "But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages. The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's 'Recessional' really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around."
-- Herbert Hoover - 31st U.S. President - "Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs."
-- Herbert Hoover - 31st U.S. President - Address in Iowa in 1932 - "The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it. "
-- Hubert H. Humphrey American vice president (1911-1978) - "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. "
-- Andrew Jackson (03/15/1767 - 06/08/1845) 7th U.S. President - "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. "
-- Andrew Jackson (03/15/1767 - 06/08/1845) U.S. President - "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) - "Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. "
-- Thomas Jefferson - "The studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. "
-- Thomas Jefferson - "Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation. "
-- Thomas Jefferson - "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. "
-- Thomas Jefferson - "Never trust a government that doesnt trust its own citizens with guns "
-- Thomas Jefferson - "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. "
-- Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson - "The arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind resolved to die free rather than live slaves. "
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1775 - "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. "
-- Thomas Jefferson - "I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. "
-- Thomas Jefferson - "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. "
-- Thomas Jefferson - "The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. "
-- Thomas Jefferson - "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 to assure the survival and the success of liberty. "
-- John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Washington, D.C. January 20, 1961 - "Let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. "
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight. "
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination - "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. "
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "Happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. "
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process "
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "Those who sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. "
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences; in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality. "
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certanity is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "Whatever you are, be a good one. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Address at Gettysburg, (Gettysburg Address) 1863 - "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
President Lincoln at Anti... - "I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be. "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens "
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "
-- Abraham Lincoln - "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. "
-- Abraham Lincoln - "The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. "
-- Abraham Lincoln - "You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up. "
-- Richard Nixon, 1952 US President, Watergate - "I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress. "
-- Ronald Reagan - "Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. "
-- Ronald Reagan - "Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. "
-- Ronald Reagan - "The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people - and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together then one day we will say, 'We fought the good fight. We finished the race We kept the faith.' And to our children and our children's children we can say, 'We did all that could be done in the brief time that was given to us here on earth.' "
-- Ronald Reagan - "Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. "
-- Ronald Reagan - "Why should we be frightened? No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than the living Americans, those Americans living in this land today. "
-- Ronald Reagan - "I'm convinced more than ever that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man. "
-- Ronald Reagan - "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. "
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt - "It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something "
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt - "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. "
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of the United States - "Peace, like charity, begins at home. "
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt - "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. "
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt - "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; Let us move forward with strong and active faith. "
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt - "In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want -- which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt - "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs-even though checkered by failure than to take rank with these poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much. Be wise, they live in the gray twilight that know not of victory, nor defeat. Nor true sorrow nor true love. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "Let us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character! "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward. More than that no man is entitled to; and less than that no man shall have. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt speech July 4th, 1903 - "It's not the critic who counts. It's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deed could have done it better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who strives vailantly, who errs and come up short again and again, who at best knows the high achievement of triumph, who at worst, fails while daring greatly for he knows his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory no defeat. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. "
-- Harry S. Truman - "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it "
-- Harry S. Truman - "We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. "
-- Harry S. Truman - "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. "
-- Harry S. Truman - "If you can't convince them, confuse them. "
-- Harry S. Truman - "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear "
-- Harry S. Truman - "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. "
-- George Washington - "Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. "
-- George Washington - "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. "
-- George Washington - "To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. "
-- George Washington - "I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. "
-- George Washington - "We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before; and it changed for the better; so I trust it will again; If difficulties arise; we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times. "
-- George Washington - "If you think about what you ought to do for other peopleyour character will take care of itself. "
-- Woodrow Wilson - "We grow great by dreams ... Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. "
-- Woodrow Wilson - "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. "
-- Woodrow Wilson - "Never murder a man who is committing suicide. "
-- Woodrow Wilson
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