Mine is:
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. - John F Kennedy, 20th Jan 1961.
2006-10-21 00:17:44 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I'll give another two which I like:
Never kill a man who is commiting suicide. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman--my dear wife - Greald Ford, August 9th 1974.
2006-10-21 00:46:50 · update #1
"One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson
"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln
"The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin Roosevelt
"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy
"America is too great for small dreams." - Ronald Reagan
"We will bring the terrorists to justice; or we will bring justice to the terrorists. Either way, justice will be done." - George W. Bush
2006-10-21 00:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by kidd 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"I am not a crook!"- Richard Nixon
"If you think the United States has stood by, who do you think built the largest shopping mall in the world?" -Richard Nixon
"Oh, that was just an accident that happened."-Richard Nixon, on why 18 minutes were erased on a Watergate tape.
"When the President does it, that means it's not illegal"-Richard Nixon
"I was under medication when I decided to burn the tapes"-Richard Nixon
"It's just a piece of paper"-George W. Bush on US Constitution
2006-10-21 06:54:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are all quotes from JFK. Want to bet he wouldn't get the nomination from the Democratic party now
Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
2006-10-21 00:31:36 · answer #3 · answered by mark g 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is preeminently the time to communicate the fact, the full certainty, frankly and boldly. Nor choose we shrink from surely dealing with circumstances in our u . s . a . at present. This great u . s . a . will undergo because it has persisted, will revive and could prosper. So, at the beginning, enable me assert my employer theory that the only ingredient we'd desire to continually concern is concern itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes mandatory efforts to transform retreat into advance.-- from FDR's first inaugural speech This ceremony is held interior the intensity of iciness. yet, via the words we communicate and the faces we coach the international, we rigidity the spring. A spring reborn interior the international's oldest democracy, that brings forth the inventive and prescient and braveness to reinvent u . s . of america. whilst our founders boldly declared u . s . of america's independence to the international and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that u . s . of america, to undergo, might might desire to alter. no longer exchange for exchange's sake, yet exchange to maintain American's ideals -- life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. inspite of the indisputable fact that we march to the music of our time, our project is timeless. each and each technology of people might desire to define what it ability to be an American. at present, a technology raised interior the shadows of the chilly conflict assumes new household projects in a international warmed via the gentle of freedom yet threatened via nevertheless historic hatreds and new plagues. inspite of the indisputable fact that our annoying circumstances are fearsome, so are our strengths. And individuals have ever been a under pressure, questing, hopeful human beings. We might desire to convey to our job at present the inventive and prescient and the choose of people who got here earlier us.an theory born in Revolution and renewed by 2 centuries of undertaking. an theory. an theory tempered via the certainty that, yet for destiny, we -- the fortunate and the unforunate -- might have been one yet another. an theory enobled via the religion that our u . s . a . can summon from that is myriad variety the interior maximum degree of degree of cohesion. an theory infused with the conviction that u . s . of america's long heroic experience might desire to pass forever upward.--from bill Clinton's 1st inaugural speech
2016-10-15 06:25:08 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"No tax should be levied upon the people that is not based on their ability to pay." Franklin Roosevelt. (I wish they would apply that to today's property tax
2006-10-21 00:24:43 · answer #5 · answered by 79vette 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The mind is a terrible thing to be wasted...Dan Quayle
2006-10-21 00:25:46 · answer #6 · answered by koalatcomics 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect iraq with the war on terror"-Bush
2006-10-21 00:50:58 · answer #7 · answered by Earl B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Do not get involved in the affairs of other nations"-G. Washington.
2006-10-21 03:10:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Nuke 'em"
Harry Truman a Missouri Democrat
2006-10-21 00:57:07 · answer #9 · answered by Jim from the Midwest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" -- George W. Bush, talking about the US Constitution
2006-10-21 00:33:05 · answer #10 · answered by Larry Powers 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋