Quotes from US Presidents
Arms
in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private
self-defense.
Let
us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare
to read, think, speak, and write.
All
men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be
folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Men
may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
The
ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
If
laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be
confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the
legislatures of the States.
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
I
have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
Government
is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the
right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Communism
is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Let
me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a
hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.