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George Washington
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
John Adams
“The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.”

Thomas Jefferson
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”





James Madison
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

James Monroe
“National honor is the national property of the highest value.”

John Quincy Adams
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

Andrew Jackson
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error”

Martin Van Buren
“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.”

William Henry Harrison
“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”

John Tyler
“Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette—the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.”

James K Polk
“Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette—the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.”

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

Millard Fillmore
“It is not strange … to mistake change for progress.”

Franklin Pierce
“Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.”

James Buchanan
“The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there”

Abraham Lincoln
“Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle.”

Andrew Johnson
“If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.”

Ulysses S Grant
“There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.”

Rutherford B Hayes
“Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.”

James Garfield
“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.”

Chester A Arthur
“Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.”

Grover Cleveland
“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”

Benjamin Harrison
“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”

William McKinley
“That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.”

Theodore Roosevelt
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

William Howard Taft
“The world is not going to be saved by legislation.”

Woodrow Wilson
“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”

Warren G Harding
“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”

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

Herbert Hoover
“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”

Franklin D Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

Harry S Truman
“I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it”

Dwight D Eisenhower
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

John F Kennedy
“One person can make a difference and every person should try.”

Lyndon B Johnson
“Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.”

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

Gerald Ford
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

Jimmy Carter
“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease”

Ronald Reagan
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”

George Bush
“From now on, any definition of a successful life must include serving others.”

Bill Clinton
“Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.”

George W Bush
“You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you’re gone.”

Originally Posted by lnvanry

I really liked Gorbie's joke at the end of the first video.

It was funny.