GREAT QUOTES OF ROOSEVELT

GREAT QUOTES OF ROOSEVELT

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

GREAT QUOTES OF MARGARET THATCHER

GREAT QUOTES OF MARGARET THATCHER

“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ” ― Margaret Thatcher

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine” ― Margaret Thatcher

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.” ― Margaret Thatcher

“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.” ― Margaret Thatcher

GREAT QUOTES OF WINSTON CHURCHILL

GREAT QUOTES OF WINSTON CHURCHILL

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston Churchill

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” ― Winston Churchill

“Never, never, never give in!” ― Winston S. Churchill

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.” ― Winston Churchill

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ― Winston Churchill

GREAT QUOTES OF NELSON MANDELA

GREAT QUOTES OF NELSON MANDELA

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” ― Nelson Mandela

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ― Nelson Mandela

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” ― Nelson Mandela

“It always seems impossible until it's done.” ― Nelson Mandela

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” ― Nelson Mandela

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” ― Nelson Mandela

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ― Nelson Mandela

GREAT QUOTES OF GANDHI

GREAT QUOTES OF GANDHI

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

GREAT QUOTES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

GREAT QUOTES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ― Abraham Lincoln

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves” ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” ― Abraham Lincoln

GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” ― George Washington

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” ― George Washington

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” ― George Washington

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?” ― George Washington

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. ” ― George Washington

“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.” ― George Washington

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.” ― George Washington

“In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.” ― George Washington

“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America.” ― George Washington

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

― George Washington

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” ― George Washington

“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.” ― George Washington

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” ― George Washington

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.” ― George Washington

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” ― George Washington

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” ― George Washington

“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.” ― George Washington

“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations; The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment... have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

[Circular to the States, 8 June 1783 - Writings 26:484--89]” ― George Washington, Writings

GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN ADAMS

GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN ADAMS

“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”

― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”

― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

― John Adams, The Portable John Adams

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”

― John Adams, The Works Of John Adams, Second President Of The United States

“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.

But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”

― John Adams, The Portable John Adams

“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.”

― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.”

― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

― John Adams, The Works Of John Adams, Second President Of The United States

GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS JEFFERSON

GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS JEFFERSON

“I cannot live without books.” - Thomas Jefferson

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” - Thomas Jefferson

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” -Thomas Jefferson

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” - Thomas Jefferson

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” -  Thomas Jefferson

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” - Thomas Jefferson

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” = Thomas Jefferson

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” - Thomas Jefferson

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” - Thomas Jefferson

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” - Thomas Jefferson

GREAT QUOTES OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS POLITICAL LEADERS

GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS POLITICAL LEADERS
GREAT QUOTES OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON

“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.” ― Alexander Hamilton

“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.” ― Alexander Hamilton

“Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.” ― Alexander Hamilton

“The constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” ― Alexander Hamilton

“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.” ― Alexander Hamilton

“The art of reading is to skip judiciously.” ― Alexander Hamilton

“I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.” ― Alexander Hamilton

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” ― Alexander Hamilton

“There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. ” ― Alexander Hamilton

“There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair."― Alexander Hamilton