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.
