Famous Quotes

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2. Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

3. I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

4. A revolution is not a bed of roses.

5. A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

6. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

7. America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

8. My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country."

9. Oh, the Humanity!" • Describe the circumstances of this quote

10. ….in this our finest hour. • Describe the circumstances of this quote

11. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

12. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

13. A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

14. I am not a crook.

15. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

16. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

17. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

18. The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

19. "I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns...and aren't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen them most all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heard. And aren't I a woman?

20. You can never learn less, you can only learn more. • (taught at SIU) • Briefly describe his primary accomplishment

21. “I shall return”

22. “I think therefore I am”

23. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

24. He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

25. Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

26. I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

27. It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. • Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

28. Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

29. I came, I saw, I conquered.

30. A picture is worth a thousand words. • An army marches on its stomach. • (French leader)

31. My lands are where my dead lie buried.

32. I will fight no more forever

33. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

34. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

35. He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

36. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

37. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. • Describe the event

38. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

39. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

40. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

41. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.