Have we forgotten the lessons of our fathers? Amazing quotes from the past....?

Question

here they are tell me what you think " ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" JFK "the most frightening words you will ever hear are, I am from the government i am here to help" RR "The reasonable man looks at his surroundings and conforms himself to fit them, the unreasonable man looks at his surroundings and conforms his surrounding to fit himself, therefore the future of the free world depends on the unreasonable man" cant remember who said that. "Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" Ben Franklin. "A society shall be judged upon how they treat the lowest of them." cant remember either. any more good ones are very welcome. please give me your feed back on these.

Answer 1

Personal fave here: Speak softly and carry a big stick - Teddy Roosevelt

Wait wait I forgot this one: If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last.... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. - Alexander Hamilton

Answer 2

""The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.""
Teddy Roosevelt

""The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.""
Thomas Jefferson

""Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.""
Abraham Lincoln

""Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.""
Ronald Reagan

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
Dwight Eisenhower

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."
JFK

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Winston Churchill

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
Nikita Khrushchev

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. "
Mark Twain

Answer 3

From the Optimist International Creed. -"Promise yourself to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future."

Answer 4

Public service is a public trust. Any person who want to be in the government must bear in mind that he wants to serve the country and not to get rich.

Answer 5

Father! Father!
Look how we crowned ourselves as the men who would be king in planet of apes.
How we kick your butts Father after the Liberation of Freedom from world war two in planet of apes.
Was it great when we learn idol worshiping the dead Mummy with skeleton of skulls and bones in planet of apes.
Look at the mess we created for ourselves in making a monkey out of ourselves with self independence in planet of apes.
Sorry about the children being created into defective, malfunction humanoids surviving and running on batteries in planet of apes.
Father! Father! wonder where did we go wrong in making a monkey out of our own children and living human kind in planet of apes?
Luke 6.46.

Answer 6

Good ones mate....but heres my favourute one:
"To see the world in a grain of sand/ Heaven in a wild flower/ Hold infinity in the palms of your hands/ and Eternity in an hour..."
*~William Blake~*

Answer 7

And God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, so that who so ever believes, in him should not die, but have everlasting life.ST. John the devine

Answer 8

a professional
is a person that does their best
when feeling their worst


Sir WinstonChurchill