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.
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.
ReplyDelete( I also enjoy your position on faces :-) )
Thank you. :)
DeleteHello miss Chaland,
ReplyDeletewhat great leaders you had in the past....how deep has America fallen.
Kind regards,
Marco (from Lindsay)
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. :)
DeleteHello miss Chaland,
Deletebest answer so far!
Kind regards,
Marco (from Lindsay)
Love this! What have we willingly become? The modern equivalent of 'good Germans'.
ReplyDeleteWhat have we become? Covfefe? Did I win? :)
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