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“The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.” ~ George Washington
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“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”
~ William Henry Harrison
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“I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.” ~ Ronald Reagan
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.” ~ George Washington
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.” ~ Jimmy Carter
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The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail. ~ George Washington
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“A true leader knows how to lead his people, knows their needs, wants, the one who humbles himself and the one who doesn’t eat and sleep well. A fake leader is the one who wants to be famous, the one who wants to be praised by people.” ~ anonymous
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ~ Walter Cronkite
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
~ George Washington
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” ~ George Washington
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“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
~ Abraham Lincoln
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“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” ~ George Washington
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“As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” ~ Sir Norman Wisdom
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“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” ~ unknown
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“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV
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“When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.” – George Washington
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“It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” – Barack Obama
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“A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” – Lyndon Johnson
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“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.” – Ronald Reagan
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“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.” ~ Ken Venturi
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“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.” ~ George Washington
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“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” ~ Buddha
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“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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