Abraham Lincoln:
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Teddy Roosevelt:
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to
avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
JFK Quotes:
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
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.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Winston Churchill Quotes:
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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 human morality.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
