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"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
- Harry S. Truman
"If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."
- James Garfield
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon Johnson
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
- John Fitzgerald
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty.""
- Theodore Roosevelt
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb."
- Calvin Coolidge
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation，for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
- George Washington
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
- James Garfield
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
- Richard M. Nixon
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
- James Madison
"I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."
- George W. Bush
"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
- Jimmy Carter
"We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America."
- George W. Bush
"Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty."
- James Madison
"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I am president now, and tired of being kicked around."
- William Taft
I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.
Barack Obama
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack Obama
To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent. Barack Obama。