Quotes by GEORGE WASHINGTON
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ”
“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
“I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. ”
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. ”
“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!”
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ”
Quotes by JOHN ADAMS
“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”
“The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.”
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John Adams”
The people “have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge– I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers.”
Quotes by DWIGHT EISENHOWER
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
“You don’t lead by hitting people over the head-that’s assault, not leadership.”
“Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power”
“Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. ”
“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.”
“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs”
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog”
The qualities of a great man are “vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.”
Quotes by CALVIN COOLIDGE
“Character is the only secure foundation of the state.”
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
“Duty is not collective; it is personal.”
“Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.”
“Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. ”
Quotes by LYNDON JOHNSON
“The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.”
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
“Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.”
“I never trust a man unless I’ve got his pecker in my pocket.
“While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.”
“Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”
“Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.”
“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”
“Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.”
“Every President wants to do right.”
“Freedom is not enough. ”
Quotes by WOODROW WILSON
“If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.”
“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
“Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.”
Quotes by THEODORE ROOSEVELT
“Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent.”
“Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense.”… “We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.”"The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. ”
Quotes by JAMES MADISON
“Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.”
“Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.”
“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
“Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.”
Quotes by ABRAHAM LINCOLN
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.:
“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.”
“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
“All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. ”
Quotes by RONALD REAGAN
“Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.”
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”
“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. ”
“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
“Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.”
“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”
“Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans.”
Quotes by JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
“This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.”
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.”
“Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ”
Quotes by RICHARD NIXON
The most famous Richard M. Nixon quote :I am not a crook.:
And “Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?”
“With all the power that a President has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the President of the United States can have.”
“When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds he still resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened to him or anyone else as falling in love with Thee-my dearest heart.”
“Don’t try to take on a new personality; it doesn’t work.”
“Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.”
“Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think”.
“A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.”
“Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.”
“Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”
“I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I’ve earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.”
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
“I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. “
“There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace.”