Weekend Wisdom

WW: The Four Presidents

Quotes from the four President’s who took a bullet and died for this country. Thank you for your service gentlemen. You are an inspiration to the nation.

John F. Kennedy

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

“Special message to the Congress on National Health Needs (65),” February 27, 1962, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1962.

James A. Garfield

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

James A. Garfield

Abraham Lincoln

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.

Abraham Lincoln
-August 27, 1856 Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan

William McKinley

Photo of McKinley Memorial by the author.

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President’s Day Quotes

Here are quotes from Abe and George in honor of President’s Day.   All quotes come from BrainyQuote.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. 

George Washington 

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth. 

George Washington 

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Abraham Lincoln 

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. 

Abraham Lincoln 

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