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“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
― George Washington
― George Washington
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.”
― John Adams
― John Adams
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson
― Thomas Jefferson
“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
― James Madison
― James Madison
"National honor is the national property of the highest value“ - James Monroe
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.”
― John Quincy Adams
― John Quincy Adams
“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.” - Andrew Jackson
"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." - Martin Van Buren
“The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.”
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison
“In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.” - John Tyler
"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world." - James K Polk
“I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish—nothing to serve but my country." - Zachary Taylor
"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." - Millard Fillmore
“There's nothing left to do but get drunk.” - Franklin Pierce
“The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among freemen." - James Buchanan
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln
― Abraham Lincoln
“The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens” - Andrew Johnson
“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace” - Ulysses S Grant
“To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible." - Rutherford B Hayes
“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people." - James A Garfield
“Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken." - Chester A Arthur
"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves." - Grover Cleveland
“The bud of victory is always in the truth." - Benjamin Harrison
"Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles." - William McKinley
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.”
― William Howard Taft
― William Howard Taft
“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”
― Woodrow Wilson
― Woodrow Wilson
“America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration." - Warren G Harding
“They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.”
― Calvin Coolidge
― Calvin Coolidge
“America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.”
― Herbert Hoover
― Herbert Hoover
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“MY DEFINITION OF A LEADER IN A FREE COUNTRY IS A MAN WHO CAN PERSUADE PEOPLE TO DO WHAT THEY DON’T WANT TO DO AND LIKE IT.”
- HARRY S. TRUMAN
- HARRY S. TRUMAN
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
― John F. Kennedy
― John F. Kennedy
“A man without a vote is a man without protection.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
― Lyndon B. Johnson
