All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas Jefferson

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson

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?

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.

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.

“Some people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”
~Thomas Woodrow Wilson

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
~Abraham Lincoln

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace. ”

“Where annual elections end where slavery begins.”
~John Quincy Adams

“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
~John Quincy Adams

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
~John Quincy Adams

“Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.”
~George H. W. Bush

“I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.”
~George H. W. Bush

“I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.”
~George H. W. Bush

“I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.”
~George H. W. Bush

“America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.”
~George W. Bush

“Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.”
~George W. Bush

“Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.”
~George W. Bush

“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.”
~Jimmy Carter

“At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.”
~Jimmy Carter

“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”
Jimmy Carter

“It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.”
~Jimmy Carter

“Genius is sorrow’s child.”
~John Adams

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
~John Adams

“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
~John Adams

“In politics the middle way is none at all.”
~John Adams

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
~Jimmy Carter

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
~Jimmy Carter