Presidential Quotes - Page 10

• As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, People, Office

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

  John F. Kennedy

  Appreciation, People, Creative

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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• Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

  Sarah Vowell

  Cities, Lakes, Vegas

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Patriotic, Blessing

  Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, January 14, 1981.

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• Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

  James Madison

  Respect, Character, Numbers

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

  James A. Garfield

  Work, Skills, Decision

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• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  Warren G. Harding

  Healing, America, Needs

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 14 May 1920.

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• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Money, Inspirational Life, Men

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Strong, Freedom

  Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

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• If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Coffee, Food, Book

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

  Speech, 19 May 1856

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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Power, Abuse

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• The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

  James Madison

  Truth, Men, Political

  James Madison's notes on the debates in the Federal Convention, avalon.law.yale.edu. July 11, 1787.

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• I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

  George McGovern

  White, House, Wish

  "Hope and Change ... the Constitution" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 25, 2010.

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• General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Patriotic, Europe

  Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, delivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin

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• For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Misunderstood, Television, American Indian

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• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, Sleep, Patriotic

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.

  Henry Miller

  Zero, Men, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

  Barack Obama

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wisdom

  "The Senator's Humble Beginning" by Mark Leibovich, www.washingtonpost.com. February 24, 2005.

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• A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Liberty

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• If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

  David Horowitz

  Birthday, Kings, Holiday

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• Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.

  Conan O'Brien

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.

  Conan O'Brien

  Men, Thinking, Tanks

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• But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

  Andy Andrews

  Past, Voting Age, People

  Andy Andrews (2012). “How Do You Kill 11 Million People? (International Edition): Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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