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“Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.”

Government Inspirational Life Presidential Strongest

Book:William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.”

Would Be Inspirational Life Presidential Foe Magnanimity Presidents Day Great Presidents Presidential Leadership

Author:Millard Fillmore

“Good ball players make good citizens.”

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Author:Grover Cleveland

“For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.”

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Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

“At a press conference yesterday NASA announced that 2005 was the hottest year on record. It is so hot, and global warming is so bad, if the presidential election were held today, Al Gore would still lose.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.”

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

“A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.”

People Government Sound Liberty Policy Citizens Taxes Instruments Lays Tyranny Presidential Urgent Servitude Public Policy Protector

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.”

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Author:Gail Collins

“If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.”

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Author:David Horowitz

“To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.”

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Book:Creative America

Source: Creative America

“Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.”

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Book:Assassination Vacation

Source: Assassination Vacation

“I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.”

“Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and . . . clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'”

“You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.”

Success Winning Battle Presidential Arena

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.”

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Author:John Mahoney

“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.”

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Author:Karl Rove

“It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell.”

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Author:Julian Barnes

“All power in human hands is liable to be abused.”

Humans Hands Presidential Liable Human Hands

Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.”

Men Should Dream America Freedom Levels Proud Every Man Presidential American Dream Independence Day

Book:Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.”

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Book:Creative America

Source: Creative America

“In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.”

Artist Nations Vision Presidential Serving

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.”

“Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.”

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Book:Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

“We also share a profound desire for a lasting peace in the Middle East. My Administration is dedicated to achieving this goal, one which will guarantee Israel security. At the same time, we will do our utmost to defend and protect Israel, for unless Israel is strong and secure, then peace will always be beyond our grasp. We were with Israel at the beginning, 41 years ago. We are with Israel today. And we will be with Israel in the future. No one should doubt this basic committment.”

“I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.”

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Author:James Baker

“It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.”

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Book:If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

“I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.”

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Book:Obituary Addresses delivered on the occasion of the death of Z. Taylor ... in the Senate and House of Representatives ... with the funeral Semon by the Rev. S. Pyne, etc

Source: Obituary Addresses delivered on the occasion of the death of Z. Taylor ... in the Senate and House of Representatives ... with the funeral Semon by the Rev. S. Pyne, etc

“The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.”

Government Responsibility Support Citizens Presidential

Author:Grover Cleveland