If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. – Calvin Coolidge
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. – Calvin Coolidge
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. – Herbert Hoover, attributed
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. – Harry Truman
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. – Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. – Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy, 1961
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. – John F. Kennedy
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. – John F. Kennedy
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. – John F. Kennedy
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. – John F. Kennedy
Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy
