Presidential

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company. ~George Washington

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ~John Adams

President John Quincy Adams (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.~John Quincy Adams

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. ~Andrew Jackson

One man with courage makes a majority.~Andrew Jackson

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

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.~Abraham Lincoln

English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.~Abraham Lincoln

We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never  b e expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.~Abraham Lincoln 1789 inaugural speech.

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of Government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity … to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God~James Madison 1778 To the General Assembly

Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think, how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask is not an alien force ALREADY among us?” “There are only a handful of people who know the truth about this.” Ronald Reagan to a full session of the United Nations, September 21, 1987