In honor of Presidents Day, what is your favorite presidential quote?
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Probably Lyndon Johnson.He also said about men he had control over- "I got his pecker in my pocket". And the ever famous-I don't want to forgive him. I want him to kiss my ass at high noon in Macy's window!
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To Bush: "Allthough I do not agree with what you say I shall defend to the death your right to say it."\n\nTo Nixon: "Right on brother down with the establishment."
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July 4th, 1939\n\n"Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."\n\nWhen you think of Gehrig and his farewell speech....that is normally the only thing that comes to mind. There was more to the speech. Here it is in it's entirety.....\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.\n\nI have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?\n\nSure I’m lucky.\n\nWho wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy?\n\nSure I’m lucky.\n\nWhen the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies -- that’s something. \n\nWhen you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter -- that’s something.\n\nWhen you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body -- it’s a blessing.\n\nWhen you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed -- that’s the finest I know.\n\nSo, I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\n\nGehrig died June 2, 1941 at age 38...not even two years after delivering his farewell.
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Ronald Reagan (Modern Times) Saving the US from Communism and Liberalism\n\nAbraham Lincoln - Preserving the Union
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"when your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."-????\n"better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven"-Milton\n"only the dead have seen an end to war"-Plato\n"woo-hoo! 4 day weekend!"-Homer Simpson
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Many Favourite Quotes: (Just a few here:)\n1. "When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and you take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen... There will be something solid for you to stand upon; Or you will be taught how to fly." -Patrick Overton\n\n2. "I do not think I have gone where i intended to go, but i think i ended up where i needed to be." - Douglas Adams\n\n3. "Education is an admirable thing, but it is important to remember that nothing that is worth knowing, can be taught" -Oscar Wilde\n\n4. "Dream as if you'll live forever, and live as if you'll die today" -James Dean
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Now this is my all-time favorite quote:\n\nDon't tell me the sky's the limit, when there are footprints on the moon.
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Billy Madison\nOld Farm Lady: If peeing in your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis\nOr when he is at Veronica’s house and sees the penguin at the top of the stairs:\nOhhhh. I see whats goin on here. So soooory to interuuupt!
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"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." \n\n- Ronald Reagan \n\nHillary fits in both
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spoken by George W. Bush\n\nSpeaking as vice president in the context of the shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane \nby an American ship, taking 290 lives, Newsweek, August 15, 1988
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"Work like you don't need the money, \nLove like your heart has never been broken,\nAnd dance like no one is watching"\n\nand\n\n"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup"\n\nare my two favorite quotes
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What comes to mind is Smokey the Bear and him saying "only you can prevent forest fires".  \n"Don't tread on me" is another good one, but that is the slogan on the Gadsen Flag.
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That JFK-what a great man. Be proud to be liberals/progressive/Democrat!
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quote from John Lennon.  "yes JFK was a good president, but he died before he could let anyone down."  i liked that quote.
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As an African American, I'd like to quote an ex-slave named Frederick Douglass.  He made a speech which in part said:\n\n"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
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Personally, my favorite thing that I've ever said is, "The things I do are well worth the faces you make."  One should be different and original, and if it makes somebody stop and think, even better.\n\nAnother good quote is from Gwendolyn Brooks's poem "Corners on the Curving Sky":\nOur earth is round, and, among other things\nThat means you and I can hold\ncompletely different\nPoints of view and both be right.\n\nIf people could just agree to disagree, the world would be a better place.