Quotes of the Week President's Edition

By Courtney Hamilton

Quote 1:

“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quote 2:

“I know only two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle,” and the other isn’t.”

-Ulysses S. Grant

Quote 3:

“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

-Abraham Lincoln

Quote 4:

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Quote 5:

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

-George Washington

Quote 6:

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

-Harry S. Truman

Quote 7:

“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”

-Ronald Reagan

Quote 8:

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

-John F. Kennedy

Quote 9:

“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”

-Richard M. Nixon

Quote 10:

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

-John Quincy Adams

Filed in: Feature, Opinion • Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
 

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