Harry Truman

1. When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

2. You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from.

3. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break. It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

4. Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

5. The responsibility of great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.

6. It 's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.

7. I never give them hell. I just tell them the truth, and they think it is hell.

Dwight David Eisenhower

1. Any man who seeks to deny equality among all his brothers betrays the spirit of the free and invites the mockery of the tyrant.

2. We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

3. I think you know that I believe we must be strong military, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

John F. Kennedy

1. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

2. The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

3. Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

4. The basis of effective government is public confidence.

5. A democracy is the most difficult kind of government to operate. It represents the last flowering, really, of the human experience.

6. It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

7. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

8. Mankind should put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

9. The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

10. A police state finds it cannot command the grain to grow.

11. Economic grows without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

Richard Nixon

1. No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

2. When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Ronald Reagan

1. While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

2. I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

3. Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a healthy appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

4. None of the four wars in my life came because we were too strong. It is weakness....that invites adventurous adversaries to make mistaken judgments.

Bill Clinton

1. I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

Martin Luther King, Jr

1. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

2. I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

3. If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

4. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

5. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

6. All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face with another problem.

Henry Kissinger

1. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

2. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

3. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

4. The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

5. The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Benjamin Disraeli

1. A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

2. No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

3. The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are for the adventurous."

4. Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

5. In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

6. Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

7. A precedent embalms a principle.

8. I say that justice is truth in action.

9. Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.