Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate. — Andy Mineo
America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation. — Joe Biden
History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow. — Chuck Hagel
It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. — Marian Wright Edelman
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. — Henry Adams
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. — Grover Cleveland
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. — John F. Kennedy
(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni
The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration. — Cornel West
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. — John F. Kennedy
Short Inspirational Presidential Quotes
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. — Ronald Reagan
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Inspirational Political Quotes
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. — Benjamin Franklin
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. — Voltaire
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. — Ann Richards
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody. — Bell Hooks
Us Presidential Quotes
Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections. — Julius Nyerere
The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world. — George H. W. Bush
This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty. — Herbert Hoover
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. — William Howard Taft
Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is. — Eamon de Valera
Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face. — Ronald Reagan
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly. — Benjamin Harrison
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education. — George H. W. Bush
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors? — Jim Hightower
American President Quotes
Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. — Ronald Reagan
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt
American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another. — Hal Moore
One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. — Dr. Seuss
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon. — Howard Dean
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. — Alan Turing
We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement. — Henry Clay
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president - not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans. — Caroline Kennedy
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep — Benito Mussolini
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it. — Barack Obama
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free. — John Tyler
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are the ones we've been waiting for. — June Jordan
we are the ones we have been waiting for — Alice Walker
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. — Theodore Roosevelt
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. — Thomas Jefferson
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution. — James Buchanan
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. — Abdul Kalam
the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. — George Washington
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. — Millard Fillmore
America is too great for small dreams. — Ronald Reagan
99% of failures come from people who make excuses. — George Washington
O, do not pray for easy lives. — Phillips Brooks
Action will
delineate and
define you. — Thomas Jefferson
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back. — Richard M. Nixon
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. — John F. Kennedy
Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. — Gerald R. Ford
A man is known by the company he keeps — Aesop
You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'. — Lyndon B. Johnson
No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries. — William J. Clinton
Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger. — Herbert Hoover
Good ball players make good citizens. — Grover Cleveland
Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired. — Jodi Kantor
More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. — Jose Ramos-Horta
Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance. — Herbert Hoover
For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be. — John F. Kennedy
We celebrate the past to awaken the future. — John F. Kennedy
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live. — John F. Kennedy
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