Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. ― Thomas Jefferson
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years ― Abraham Lincoln
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -Harry S. Truman
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. -John F. Kennedy
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. –John Quincy Adams
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. –Theodore Roosevelt
That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own. – Barack Obama
We are a nation of communities…a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. –George H.W. Bush
Without passion you don’t have energy, with out energy you have nothing. – Donald Trump
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes when you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes; because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain… Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember: Others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself. – Richard Nixon
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ― Theodore Roosevelt
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. – Ronald Reagan
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. –George W. Bush
You have to think anyway, so why not think big? – Donald Trump
If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ― James Madison
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal. -Abraham Lincoln
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. — Thomas Jefferson
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. … Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. -Barack Obama
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.–Richard Nixon
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help. –Ronald Reagan
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. -Herbert Hoover
“If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should never grow old.” ― James Garfield
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. -Jimmy Carter
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. – Ronald Reagan
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. — Jimmy Carter
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs. — Bill Clinton
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
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
