Presidential Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Optimistic

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• It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Selfish, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

  E. B. White

  Suicide, Suicidal, Political

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• Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

  John McCain

  Ambition, Disease, Fluid

  "Not Bad At All". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, texags.com. April 26, 2002.

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• Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

  Warren G. Harding

  Ambition, Men, Succeed

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• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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• All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

  Grover Cleveland

  Teaching, Patriotic, Godly

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Godly, Men

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Character, Personality

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• [The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

  Andrew Jackson

  Bible, God, Religious

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  Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.

  Ronald Reagan

  Bible, God, Religious

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Keys, Nba

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• There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

  David Ogilvy

  Humorous, Television Commercials, Election

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• The world must be made safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Democracy, World, Safe

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917 See ThomasWolfe 1

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• The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Sacrifice, Giving

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Order

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• The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Years, America

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• The era of big government is over.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

  State of the Union Address, 23 Jan. 1996

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• Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

  Joseph Sobran

  Giving, Liberty, Aces

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• We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Religious, Law, America

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.

  Millard Fillmore

  Views, Political, Religion

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