1789 quotes by presidents for you to enjoy

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us. Jimmy Carter

Faith Good You Respect Abortion Secular Gun Gun Control Control Evolve Bad Religious Religious Faith Followers More Wrong Crusade Attract Affairs Fervent Moderate Any Where Either Against Us Your Beliefs Right

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin? John Quincy Adams

Rights Humanity First Depend Skin Virtue Evils Moral More Color Doctrine Principle Makes Sources False Very Than Heartless Vice Estimates Which Among Slavery

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought. John Quincy Adams

Gratitude Soul Thought Sentiment Other Possession Scarce Bosom Takes Sincere Overflowing Leaves Intense Any Room Warm Fills

A man without a vote is man without protection. Lyndon B. Johnson

Man Vote Protection Without

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. Richard M. Nixon

Leader Individual Never He Stood Controversial Anything Wants Means

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time. Richard M. Nixon

Time Home You Better Drive Seven Out Dressed Better Things Come Hours Get Blown Holes Your Play Things By The Time

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. Ronald Reagan

Future Past Live Inspiration Take Like Most American While

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. Ronald Reagan

Problems Solve Only Tend Governments Them Rearrange

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. Ronald Reagan

Me Coffee Lunch Find Drink Drink Coffee Never Afternoon Awake Keeps

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. Ronald Reagan

Great Peace World Cause Country Community World Peace Gave Our Those Weapons Give Obsolete Talents Rendering Call Scientific Turn Mankind Us Means Who Now Nuclear Nuclear Weapons

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out. Ronald Reagan

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson

People Control Think Society Enough Take Remedy Know Safe Powers Exercise Ultimate Discretion Inform Them Themselves Wholesome Enlightened

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. Thomas Jefferson

Myself Single Month Take Feel Read Nor Infinitely Happier Newspaper

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. Thomas Jefferson

Silence Way Religious Take Them Notice Disputes

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it. Warren G. Harding

Book Matter Mind Somewhere Out Must Tells About Could Know Read Go Maybe Where Taxation Turn Straighten Found

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man. William McKinley

Man Free Long Free Man Cannot Ignorant

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. Woodrow Wilson

Peace Word Negative Trouble Neutrality Ought Out Feel Does America Trying May Which Express Keep Foundations Rebuilt Preserve

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices. Ulysses S. Grant

Property Church Resting Corporation Possibly Would Resting Place Proper Only Restrictions Dead Equally Whether Place Taxation Suggest Last

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