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John Quincy Adams Quotes

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.”  ~John Quincy Adams

“From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.” ~John Quincy Adams 

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~John Quincy Adams

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You won’t find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”  ~ Thomas Jefferson

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“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” ~Thomas Jefferson

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Lyndon Johnson Quotes

“A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” ~ Lyndon Johnson

“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.” ~Lyndon B. Johnson

John F. Kennedy Quotes (1917–1963)

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.” ~John F. Kennedy

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ~John F. Kennedy

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” ~John F. Kennedy

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.”  ~John F. Kennedy

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~John F. Kennedy

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”  ~John F. Kennedy

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.” ~John F. Kennedy

“Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind. ”  ~John F. Kennedy

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”  ~John F. Kennedy

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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” ~John F. Kennedy

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“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” ~John F. Kennedy

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“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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“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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“I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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Richard Nixon Quotes

“The greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes when you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes; because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain… Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember: Others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself.” ~Richard Nixon

 

Barack Obama Quotes

“The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” ~Barack Obama

“If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.” ~Barack Obama

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”  ~Barack Obama

“The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.” ~Barack Obama

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.” ~Barack Obama

 

Ronald Reagan Quotes

“We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.” ~Ronald Reagan

“Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.” ~Ronald Reagan

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”   ~Ronald Reagan

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things.  He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” ~Ronald Reagan

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“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” ~Ronald Reagan

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“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.” ~Ronald Reagan

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Franklin D. Roosevelt  (1882–1945)

“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. ” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”  ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt.

“In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.”  ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”   ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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Harry S. Truman Quotes

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” ~ Harry S. Truman

“No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.” – Harry S. Truman

“The buck stops here.” ~ Harry S. Truman

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“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” ~Harry S. Truman

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Donald Trump Quotes

“When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.” ~Donald Trump

“The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home – which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.” ~Donald Trump

“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.” ~Donald Trump
“In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.” ~Donald Trump

“The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it.  That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead.” ~Donald Trump

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“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” ~Donald Trump

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George Washington Quotes

“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who make excuses.”  ~George Washington (1732–1799)

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” ~George Washington

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” ~George Washington

 

Woodrow Wilson Quotes

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” ~ Woodrow Wilson 

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” ~ Woodrow Wilson

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