Family Education Network
December 2000February 2001

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (Reagan, 1988)

There is no indispensable man. (Wilson, 1912)

One man with courage makes a majority. (Jackson, 1832)


I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. (Ford, 1973)


Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. (Nixon, 1974)
         

You cannot fool all of the people all of the time. (Lincoln, 1858)


An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. (Fillmore, 1844)

We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. (Bush, 1989)
Kennedy

There is always inequity in life... Life is unfair. (Kennedy, 1961)
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. (T. Roosevelt, 1901)
         
Washington

I cannot tell a lie. (Washington, 1742?)

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking. (Hayes, 1878)

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. (Coolidge, 1929)

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin. (Hoover, 1932)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. (F. D. Roosevelt, 1933)
         

You cannot stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it. (Truman, 1948)

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts. (Eisenhower, 1957)

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present. (Johnson, 1964)
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. (Taft, 1920)
Jefferson

A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing. (Jefferson, 1887)
         

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. (W. H. Harrison, 1841)

A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out. (Cleveland, unknown)

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. (Grant, 1869)

 
         
 

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