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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few: and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington.
It is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington.
"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
As 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 happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. 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
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Andrew Jackson
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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
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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
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Abraham Lincoln
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln
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I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. Abraham Lincoln
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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. Abraham Lincoln
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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
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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
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left (behind) by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln
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.
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Click Here for words of Jefferson Davis, also a president at about the same time as A. Lincoln.
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
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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.
in either event 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.
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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
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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
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I do not choose to run. Calvin Coolidge 1928
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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
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
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.
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Hoover going out,
FDR coming in.
We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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This country does not forget God
or the soldier.
Upon both we now depend. JFK
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"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - 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
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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
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Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. JFK
"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.