Sayings and Quotes

Here is a compilation of some quotes and sayings by American Presidents on the occasion of the Presidents Day! Well Happy Presidents Day!

If you want to wish anyone on the presidents day, just pick up of the Presidents day quote from below, and add it to your greetings card or even do an SMS. Nowadays everyone sends greetings by texting, so I heard.

“Abraham Lincoln needs no marble shaft to perpetuate his name; his words are the most enduring monument, and will forever live in the hearts of the people.” ~Osborn H. Oldroyd

“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” ~John F. Kennedy

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” ~Bill Clinton

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” ~Calvin Coolidge

“More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself.” ~Charles Francis Adams

“I know I am getting better at golf because I’m hitting fewer spectators.” ~Gerald Ford

“I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.” ~Woodrow Wilson

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.” ~Thomas Jefferson

“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.” ~Lyndon B. Johnson

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” ~Harry S. Truman

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” ~Herbert Hoover

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

“The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” ~Ronald Reagan

“Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” ~James Madison

“The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.” ~James A. Garfield

“The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.” ~John Quincy Adams

Happy Presidents day again!
BTW, who would/did you vote for this time?

Napolean’s saying on incompetence, “Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.”

And so the supply chain general looking after the food supplies is invariably the one who will win the war, “An army marches on its stomach.”

And a success quote by napolean, “If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”

Di he write this Joshephine? “Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”

On Death and Martyrdom, Napolean said that “It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”

A doctor quote by Napolean, “Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” How True.

Here are some of my favorite Abraham Lincoln quotes and sayings

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A nice Abraham Lincoln quote on governance, “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ”

“The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.”

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. ”

“I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.”

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”
~Abraham Lincoln

“You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.”
~Abraham lincoln

“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”

“When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to away, it’s best to let him run”
~Abraham lincoln

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

This is a very clever quote from Abraham Lincoln, “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ”
“If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.”

You may add more quotes by Abraham Lincoln.