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30 US President Quotes

By Claudia Looi 2 Comments

22 Nov

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These are quotes I found at a construction site in Washington D.C. I enjoyed reading them, hope you too.

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1. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama

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2. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. -George W. Bush

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3. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. - William J.Clinton

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4. We know what works. Freedom works. We know what's right. Freedom is right. - George H.W. Bush

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5. All great change in America begins at the dinner table. - Ronald Reagan

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6. America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. - Jimmy Carter
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7. I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. - Gerald R. Ford

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8. The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. - Richard M. Nixon
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9. There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. - Lyndon B. Johnson

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10. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy

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11. Plans are nothing; planning is everything. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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12. I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. - Harry S. Truman

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13. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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14. Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover

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15. The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. - Woodrow Wilson

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16. Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. - William Howard Taft

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17. Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

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18. The free man cannot be long an ignorant man. - William McKinley

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19. In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. - Grover Cleveland

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20. The bud of victory is always in the truth. - Benjamin Harrison

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21. Honor lies in honest toil. - Grover Cleveland

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22. Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken. - Chester A. Arthur

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23. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. - James A. Garfield

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24. He serves his party best who serves his country best. - Rutherford B. Hayes

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25. I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. - Ulysses S. Grant

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26. Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.- Andrew Johnson

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27. In the end , it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

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28. What is right and what is practicable are two different things. - James Buchanan

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29. Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. - Franklin Pierce

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30. It is not strange...to mistake change for progress. - Millard Fillmore

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Comments

  1. Shaun says

    January 6, 2014 at 10:10 am

    This is great. I hope to get to D.C. This summer for the first time.

    Thanks for sharing

    Shaun
    http://www.thislifeintrips.com

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    • Claudia Looi says

      January 7, 2014 at 8:28 pm

      You're welcome Shaun.

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