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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Theodore Roosevelt
Moving On Courage Better Move On Energy Only Through Better Things Labor Effort Move Grim Painful Things Resolute
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. Barack Obama
You Progress Path Down Right Path Willing Make Walking Keep Eventually Right
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' Lyndon B. Johnson
Morning History Water President Top One Morning Would Potomac River Headline Read Walked Afternoon Across Swim
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. Harry S Truman
Truth Time Good Lie Mouth Richard Nixon Lying Sides Nixon Out Telling Telling The Truth Both Both Sides He Himself Caught His Hand Same Just Same Time Richard Keep Ever
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. Abraham Lincoln
Day Man Fruit Wait Tree Ripe Impatient Both Attempt He Spoil Force Him His Falls May Patiently After Process Length Lap Watches
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams
You Old Wish Minds Must Horses Like Exercise Order Them Working Keep
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy
Risks Long Action Range Costs Comfortable Than Inaction Far Far Less Less Chance
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. John F. Kennedy
Success Hope Adversity Home Freedom Broken Democracy Will Honors Carries Neither Disappear Israel Demoralized Shield Nor Child Brave Order Endure Created Sword Flourish
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. Thomas Jefferson
Corruption Destruction Will Power First Country Our Consolidation Steady Road Taking Wit Course Pass Then Show Now Necessary Consequence
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S Truman
Politics Leader Party Boss He Democratic Democratic Party Republican Republican Party
Man is not free unless government is limited. Ronald Reagan
Government Man Free Unless Limited
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. Barack Obama
Work Today Health Family Take For Granted Secure Minimum Minimum Wage Security Bear Week Take Retirement Health Insurance Insurance Wage Leave Label Labor Labor Movement Movement Social Much Granted Plans Union Helped Social Security Medicare
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Future History Wise Man Wise Man Wait Down Run Neither Lies Over Him Tracks Nor Train Brave Brave Man
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. Abraham Lincoln
Liberty Sheep Wolf Thanks Liberator Definition Destroyer Throat Drives Him Shepherd His Same Which While Plainly Act Agreed
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. George H. W. Bush
Me Mother Made President States Kid Broccoli Eat More Since Like Liked Any Going Little Little Kid United United States
Remember, 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 M. Nixon
Best You Yourself Hate Win Remember Discouraged Petty Others Unless Those Destroy Give Never Always Get May Them Then Your Who
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy
Success Victory Defeat Fathers Thousand Orphan
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. John F. Kennedy
War Corruption Communism Power Country Both Never Come Disrupted
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. Richard M. Nixon
You Yourself Hate Win Unless Those Destroy Them Then Who
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln
Today Man Yesterday Think He Wiser Than Much Who
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson
Government Selfish Own Rich Too Bend Purposes Powerful Often Regretted Acts
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. John F. Kennedy
Politics Time Men Party Crisis Able Generosity Goodwill Domestic Regardless Should Unite
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. Lyndon B. Johnson
Education Justice Opportunity Will Men Emancipation Unaware Fact Color Unconcerned Until Blind Proclamation Race Skins
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Strength People Giving Nation Our Air Our People Destroys Purifying Fresh Itself Forests Land Lungs
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Intelligence World Smart I Can Colleagues Pick Smartest Fellow Sure
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. John F. Kennedy
Commitment Oppression Own Tolerance Others Rather Implies Condemns Persecution Lack Beliefs
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