Presidential quotes...

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Im reading thru the book "Wit and Wisdom of the American Presidents" and will be posting the best and or funniest quotes i see for your enjoyment....

I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

-Abe Lincon

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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.

-George Washington

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Be not intimidated...from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

-John Adams

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Liberty cannot be preserved without knowledge among people.

-John Adams

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The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

-James Monroe

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The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold than to trust to drawing his teeth and claws after he shall have entered.

-Thomas Jefferson

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Never spend your money before you have it.

-Thomas Jefferson

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I have not noticed men's honesty grow in proportion to thier riches.

-Thomas Jefferson

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There is nothing stable but heaven and the Constitution.

-James Madison

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Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not been found to fail.

-John Quincy Adams

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Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

-Andrew Jackson

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I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

-Abe Lincon

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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

-Ulysses Grant

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Whatever there is of greatness in the United States is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government and no leading class.

-Ulysses Grant

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If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

-Chester Alan Arthur

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The White House is a bully pulpit.

-Ted Roosevelt

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I'd rather have everyone on my side than be armed to the teeth.

-Woodrow Wilson

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One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.

-Herbert Clark Hoover

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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

-FDR

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We would rather die on our feet then live on our knees.

-FDR

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(hand-lettered sign on his desk) The Buck Stops Here.

-Harry Truman

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I know something about Mr. Khrushchev... Mr Khrushchev himself, it is said, told the story about the Russian who began to run through the Kremlin, shouting, "Khrushchev's a fool. Khrushchev's a fool." He was sentenced, he said, to twenty-three years in prison, three for insulting a Party member, and twenty for revealing a state secret.

-JFK

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A bronco is something that kicks and bucks, twists and turns, and very seldom goes in one direction. We have one of those things here in Washington. its called the Congress

-Gerald Ford

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Im proud to be called a pig, it stands for Pride Integrity and Guts

-Ronald Reagan

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how bout this one..