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George Washington

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of titles, the character of an honest man.
Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

John Adams

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule this roof.
Liberty cannot be preserved without knowledge among people.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it! If you do not, I shall repent it in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it!
(on the vice presidency) My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
Delay is preferable to error.

James Madison

But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be neccessary.
The diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Monroe

Let us, by all wise and constitutional measures, promote intelligence among the people, as the best means of preserving our liberties.
In a government founded on the sovereignty of the people, the education of youth is an object of the first importance.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

John Quincy Adams

Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost.

Martin Van Buren

James Knox Polk

We have a country as well as a party to obey.
When it comes down to the relations of any President with a Congress controlled by the opposite party, I just say this: it is no bed of roses.
In truth, though I occupy a very high position, I am the hardest-working man in this country.

Zachary Taylor

For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory.

Millard Fillmore

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason He makes so many of them.
I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Andrew Johnson

Honest conviction is my courage, the Constitution is my guide.
In the support and practice of correct principles we can never reach wrong results.

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes

He serves his party best who serves his country best.
I would honor the man who would give to his country a good newspaper.
As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth.

James A. Garfield

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
All free governments are party governments.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell he is a devil.
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Chester A. Arthur

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.
Well, there doesn't seem to be anything else for an ex-President to do but go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

Grover Cleveland

(remark made to Franklin D. Roosevelt as a boy) Franklin, I hope you never become President.
Whatever you do, tell the truth.
Men and times change - but principles - never.
(last words) I have tried so hard to do right.

Benjamin Harris

Unlike many other people less happy, we give our devotion to a government, to its Constitution, to its flag, and not to men.
Great lives do not go out. They go on.

William McKinley

The ideals of yesterday are the truths of today.
Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles.
Liberty to make our laws does not give us license to break them.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Theodore Roosevelt

***Teddy's Quotes and More Coming Soon***

Harry S. Truman

I fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.

George W. Bush

If my opponent had been at the moon launch, it would have been a risky rocket scheme. If he had been there when Edison was testing the light bulb, it would have been a risky anti-candle scheme. And if he'd been there when the Internet was invented, well...I understand he actually was there for that.

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