"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
- John Adams
"In politics the middle way is none at all."
- John Adams
"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty."
- John Adams
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
- John Quincy Adams
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war."
- John F. Kennedy
"Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Banking establishments are more dangerous
than standing armies."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Conquest is not in our principles.
It is inconsistent with our government."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I have always been afraid of banks."
- Andrew Jackson
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think
of at least two ways to spell any word."
- Andrew Jackson
"Never take counsel of your fears."
- Andrew Jackson
"The Bible is the rock
on which this Republic rests."
- Andrew Jackson
"The brave man inattentive to his duty,
is worth little more to his country
than the coward who deserts
in the hour of danger. "
- Andrew Jackson
"War is a blessing compared with national degradation."
- Andrew Jackson
"Wars will remain while human nature remains.
I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration;
but the soldier's occupation we cannot say
is gone until human nature is gone."
- Rutherford B. Hayes
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
- Abraham Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
"And in the end it's not the
years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
"As I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four
sharpening the axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
"God must love the common man,
he made so many of them."
- Abraham Lincoln
"If I were two-faced,
would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln
"Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found
than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
"These capitalists generally
act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed
that should be cut out.
It has no place in America.
- William Howard Taft
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
- William Howard Taft
"Firearms are second only to the
Constitution in importance;
they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
- George Washington
"It is impossible to rightly govern
a nation without God and the Bible.
- George Washington
"It will be found an unjust and unwise
jealousy to deprive a man of his natural
liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
- George Washington
"Mankind, when left to themselves,
are unfit for their own government.
- George Washington
"My first wish is to see this
plague of mankind, war,
banished from the earth.
- George Washington
"I hate to see complacency prevail
in our lives when it's so directly contrary
to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter
"I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Jimmy Carter
"All great change in America
begins at the dinner table.
- Ronald Reagan
"Government does not solve problems;
it subsidizes them.
- Ronald Reagan
"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay
would be to let the government run it.
- Ronald Reagan
"I do not believe there is a problem
in this country or the world today
which could not be settled if approached
through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount
- Harry S. Truman
"I had faith in Israel before it was established,
I have in it now. I believe it
has a glorious future before it -
not just another sovereign nation,
but as an embodiment of the great
ideals of our civilization.
- Harry S. Truman