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“Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.”
Jimmy Carter
George W. Bush
Lyndon B. Johnson
Barack Obama
“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.”
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Chester A. Arthur
Harry Truman
“A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Andrew Jackson
Woodrow Wilson
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
James A. Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
“We do not need to fear the expression of ideas—we do need to fear their suppression.”
Harry S. Truman
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
John Adams
James Madison
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Donald Trump
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
Grover Cleveland
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
“We cannot overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.”
Grover Cleveland
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Theodore Roosevelt
“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
“Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette—the more you woo her, the more apt she is to elude your embrace.”
John Tyler
Donald Trump
Barack Obama
Thomas Jefferson
“I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.”
John Adams
James Monroe
George Washington
James K. Polk
“The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.”
James Madison
Franklin Pierce
Chester A. Arthur
Rutherford B. Hayes
“I want a kinder, gentler nation.”
Gerald Ford
Bill Clinton
George H.W. Bush
Dwight Eisenhower
“And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
William McKinley
Bill Clinton
William Howard Taft
John F. Kennedy
“Good ballplayers make good citizens.”
William Howard Taft
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
Chester A. Arthur
“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.”
Richard Nixon
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Gerald Ford
“I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way; but I am not fit to be President.”
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
John Adams
Martin Van Buren
“A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out.”
William Henry Harrison
James K. Polk
John Tyler
Grover Cleveland
“Truth is the glue that holds governments together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.”
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Pierce
Benjamin Harrison
“A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.”
James Monroe
Woodrow Wilson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Grover Cleveland
“You cannot stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it.”
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Harry Truman
Herbert Hoover
“The business of America is business.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Truman
William McKinley
Calvin Coolidge
“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
James A. Garfield
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Zachary Taylor
“As to the Presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of the entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.”
Andrew Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin Pierce
Martin Van Buren
“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Warren G. Harding
“There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“There is nothing wrong in America that can’t be fixed with what is right in America.”
John F. Kennedy
Bill Clinton
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jimmy Carter
“We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.”
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
“Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.”
William Howard Taft
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Chester A. Arthur
“An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.”
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Millard Fillmore
Abraham Lincoln
“I don’t know much about Americanism, but it’s a damn good word with which to carry an election.”
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
Warren G. Harding
Rutherford B. Hayes
“For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.”
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
“We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.”
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
James Monroe
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”
Bill Clinton
William Henry Harrison
George W. Bush
Martin Van Buren
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.”
Gerald Ford
James Monroe
John F. Kennedy
Theodore Roosevelt
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
James Madison
William Henry Harrison
Millard Fillmore
George Washington
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