Quotes from Presidents, and a couple others

Guru said:
Quotes from Presidents, and a couple others, for your enjoyment and entertainment.

But you have no quotes nor any idea what a president is, eh??
 
T.R. Roosevelt...

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 not victory nor defeat.

Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899

:D
 
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
--Ronald Reagan
 
Teddy on "Multiculturalism"...

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
:D
 
YELTSIN:

You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can not sit upon it for long..
 
The Hon Sir William Osler:

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, this life.
 
Re: YELTSIN:

LordLucan74 said:
You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can not sit upon it for long..

This was very true if you saw the former Soviet Union countries.
 
"The word 'divorce' comes from the Latin vorciniona, which means, 'to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.'"
—Robin Williams, New York Post, 1/16/01

"We don't do bags."
—Secret Service agent to former Vice President Al Gore when Gore expected his bags to be carried for him after landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Lucianne.com, 2/01

TB4p
 
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