Sunday, February 16, 2020

Presidents Day - Presidential Quotes.











  

Andrew Jackson:
"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."

William Henry Harrison:
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."

Abraham Lincoln:
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."

Ulysses S. Grant:
"Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor."

Rutherford B. Hayes:
"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals."


Benjamin Harrison:
"Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds."

William McKinley:
"The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."

Theodore Roosevelt:
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life, we get nothing save by effort."

William H. Taft:
"Don't write so that you can be understood; write so that you can't be misunderstood."

Woodrow Wilson:
"No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation."

Warren G. Harding:
"I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election."

Calvin Coolidge:
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."

Herbert Hoover:
"America—a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose."

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
"The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself."

Dwight D. Eisenhower:
"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were—to the very last minute—a chance to lose it."

John F. Kennedy:
"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."

Lyndon B. Johnson:
"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:
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

Jimmy Carter:
"Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease."

Bill Clinton:
"We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons."

And of course...Dotard Cadet Bone Spurs...

 

 





 


 



 


 


 

Glennallen, Alaska

 

Sixty-five years after it crash-landed on a beach in Wales, an American P-38 fighter plane has emerged from the surf and sand where it lay buried. 

7 comments:

  1. I certainly enjoyed your position on the greater good; I don’t want to call it politics. I’m sure no small amount of effort was used to round up these messages. If only our “leaders” would recall, and live by them.
    ( I also enjoy your position on faces :-) )

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  2. Hello miss Chaland,

    what great leaders you had in the past....how deep has America fallen.

    Kind regards,

    Marco (from Lindsay)

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    1. When a country "falls" its because the populace failed to control their "employees", which is all our elected politicians are. They work for us, after all. :)

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    2. Hello miss Chaland,

      best answer so far!

      Kind regards,

      Marco (from Lindsay)

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  3. Love this! What have we willingly become? The modern equivalent of 'good Germans'.

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