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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt
School Willing Economize America Expenditure Which Should Last
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. George Washington
Experience Past Back Unless Purpose Bought Look Dearly Errors Should Useful Derive Lessons
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. George Washington
Government Liberty Military Hostile Over Particularly Any Establishments Form Regarded Republican Grown
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. Grover Cleveland
Success Government Justice People Intelligence Depend Must Morality For The People Interest Themselves
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president. Herbert Hoover
Teacher You Class Man Woman Son Doctor Will Daughter President Employer Employing Pigeonhole His May Maybe Banker Worker Working Farmer Farming Working-Class Professional Even
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams
Nature Ignorance Constitution Confusion Honor Virtue Circulation Distress Arise Confederation America Want Much Downright Credit Defects Coin
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. Lyndon B. Johnson
People Opportunity Walk Doors Our Our People Those Must Through Open Also Equip The Doors
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Richard M. Nixon
War History More Misunderstood Than American American History Then Vietnam Vietnam War Event Now
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. Ronald Reagan
Government Gone Other Ourselves Beyond Protect Limits Exists Where Deciding Us Each
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt
Success People Important Single Along Most Knowing How Get The Most Important Formula Success Is Ingredient
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson
Friendship Peace All Nations Alliance None Commerce Nations Honest
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. Thomas Jefferson
Hope Possess Though Never Occasion Arms Loves Them
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln
Faith Duty Our Dare Makes Understand End Might Us Let Us Lets Right
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. Abraham Lincoln
He Part Wrong Him Goes Anybody While Stand Stands Right
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. Abraham Lincoln
Nothing Sentiment Everything Fail Without Public Succeed
We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. Donald Trump
Great Strong Will Safe Make Proud America Again
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. Franklin D. Roosevelt
People Progress Political Nation Ambition Down Else Our Seeking Economic Individualist Go Up Personal Personal Ambitions
The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs. George H. W. Bush
Day Man Woman Will Black Sit Avenue Finally Pennsylvania About Remarkable Oval Oval Office Come Most How Occurs Lincoln Off Legacy Office Far Fulfilled Naturally Thing
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. George W. Bush
Resolve Our Touch Shake Steel Attacks Shatter Buildings Terrorist Dent America American Biggest Cannot Foundation Acts Foundations
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. George Washington
Impossible Supreme Supreme Being Without Arriving Being Reason
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Gerald R. Ford
Truth Government Together Truth Is Glue Holds
I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done. James K. Polk
Religion Man Hypocrisy State Adequately Horror He Veil Feel His Falsehood Cloak Done Cannot Who Express Base
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. James Madison
Will Power Generally Wrong Done Wherever Interest
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison
Trust People Other Other Countries Unlike Citizens Advantage Countries Armed Arms Governments American Afraid Being Whose Right
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Jimmy Carter
Rights Invent Sense Human Rights Invented Real Very America Did Human Real Sense
We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life. Jimmy Carter
Life Democracy Political My Life Seen Become Think Worst System Moral Instead Been American Political System Ethical Standards Now Ever Oligarchy Basic Damage
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