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"Dance like no one is watching, love like you'll never be hurt,sing like no one is listening,and live like it's heaven on earth."- William Purkey

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."- Abraham Lincoln

"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." - Benjamin Harrison

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind" - John F. Kennedy

"...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror."- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America." - Bill Clinton

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, in a final sense, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." - Thomas Jefferson

"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin

"Where the children of rich and poor mingle together on the play ground and in the school room, there is produced a unity of feeling and a popular love for public institutions that can be brought about in no other way."- Benjamin Harrison

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”- Abraham Lincoln

“All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.”- Thomas Jefferson

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."- Ronald Reagan

"I can hear you. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."- George W. Bush at Ground Zero (Sept. 14, 2001)

"The buck stops here."- Harry S. Truman

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." - Gerald Ford

"Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights." -Ronald Reagan

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw

"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."- William H. Taft

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."- George Washington

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."- John F. Kennedy

"Let us never negotiate out of fear; but let us never fear to negotiate."- John F. Kennedy

"We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want."- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."- John F. Kennedy

"All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today."- Lyndon B. Johnson, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."- Theodore Roosevelt

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."-Ronald Reagan

"We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail." - George W. Bush

“When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.”- Thomas Jefferson

"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory."- Milliard Fillmore

"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."- William McKinley

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."-FDR

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner."- John F. Kennedy

"Keep the church and State forever separate."- Ulysess S. Grant

"We must be the great arsenal of democracy."- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bounds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'" Ronald Reagan on the explosion of the Challenger

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”- Thomas Jefferson

"The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world." -Ronald Reagan

"Depends on what your definition of is is."- Bill Clinton

"Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it."- Steven V. Thulon

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."- Nadi

"We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect."- John F. Kennedy

"We have learned that we can not live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away."- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."- John F. Kennedy

"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."- George Washington

"Liberty without learning is always in peril"- John F. Kennedy

"The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."- FDR

"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime -- to set an example -- and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history." - William McKinley

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