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American politics4 quotes
We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing. — John Dean · 1973America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. — Warren G. Harding · 1920Upon one point there is entire unanimity in public sentiment—that conflicting claims to the Presidency must be amicably and peaceably adjusted, and that when so adjusted the general acquiescence of the nation ought surely to follow. — Rutherford B. Hayes · 1877The thirteenth amendment secured them freedom; the fourteenth amendment due process of law, protection of property, and the pursuit of happiness; and the fifteenth amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they are intended. While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed. — William Howard Taft · 1909American Civil War3 quotes
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. — William Tecumseh Sherman · 1864We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. — William Tecumseh Sherman · 1864War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. — William Tecumseh Sherman · 1864Progress3 quotes
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong · 1969Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the solution. — Gloria Steinem · 1994Can I do something in my lifetime that can help change the way we are.... Can I help in a little tiny fraction, make it better here? — Maya Lin · 2011American business2 quotes
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. — Charles E. Wilson · 1953If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889Bill of Rights2 quotes
I know it when I see it. — Potter Stewart · 1964The thirteenth amendment secured them freedom; the fourteenth amendment due process of law, protection of property, and the pursuit of happiness; and the fifteenth amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they are intended. While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed. — William Howard Taft · 1909Cars2 quotes
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of city architecture. — Philip C. Johnson · 1955The horseless vehicle is the coming wonder. — Thomas Edison · 1895Civil rights2 quotes
Under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. — James A. Garfield · 1881The thirteenth amendment secured them freedom; the fourteenth amendment due process of law, protection of property, and the pursuit of happiness; and the fifteenth amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they are intended. While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed. — William Howard Taft · 1909God and America2 quotes
God has placed upon our head a diadem and has laid at our feet power and wealth beyond definition or calculation. But we must not forget that we take these gifts upon the condition that justice and mercy shall hold the reins of power and that the upward avenues of hope shall be free to all the people. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889Surely there must have been God's intent in the making of this new-world Republic. Ours is an organic law which had but one ambiguity, and we saw that effaced in a baptism of sacrifice and blood, with union maintained, the Nation supreme, and its concord inspiring. — Warren G. Harding · 1921Hard work2 quotes
There is no substitute for hard work. — Thomas Edison · 1932Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison · 1932Inspiration2 quotes
Steal old stuff. — Austin Kleon · 2017I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write. — Toni Morrison · 1981Poverty2 quotes
It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be. — Frank McKinney Hubbard · 1911There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. — Warren G. Harding · 1921US and Native American relations2 quotes
These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries, nor will his red children acknowledge any. — Tecumseh · 1810Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun. — Tecumseh · 1799Voting rights2 quotes
If in other lands it be high treason to compass the death of the king, it shall be counted no less a crime here to strangle our sovereign power and stifle its voice. — James A. Garfield · 1881With the nation-wide induction of womanhood into our political life, we may count upon her intuitions, her refinements, her intelligence, and her influence to exalt the social order. We count upon her exercise of the full privileges and the performance of the duties of citizenship to speed the attainment of the highest state. — Warren G. Harding · 1921War2 quotes
War!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. — Edwin Starr · 1970You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. — William Tecumseh Sherman · 1864Adversity1 quote
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver · 2006Agnosticism1 quote
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all agnosticism means. — Clarence Darrow · 1925America1 quote
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. — Warren G. Harding · 1920American Presidency1 quote
I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected. — William Tecumseh Sherman · 1884American foreign policy1 quote
America, our America, the America builded on the foundation laid by the inspired fathers, can be a party to no permanent military alliance. It can enter into no political commitments, nor assume any economic obligations which will subject our decisions to any other than our own authority. — Warren G. Harding · 1921American prosperity1 quote
God has placed upon our head a diadem and has laid at our feet power and wealth beyond definition or calculation. But we must not forget that we take these gifts upon the condition that justice and mercy shall hold the reins of power and that the upward avenues of hope shall be free to all the people. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889Americans1 quote
The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it. — William Howard Taft · 1909Anti-war1 quote
War!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. — Edwin Starr · 1970Art1 quote
I don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need. — Jim Dine · 2010Artistic expression1 quote
I don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need. — Jim Dine · 2010Black Americans1 quote
The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it. — William Howard Taft · 1909Borrowing and creativity1 quote
Steal old stuff. — Austin Kleon · 2017Capitalism1 quote
For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use. — Thomas Edison · 1917Captivity1 quote
I know why the caged bird sings! — Paul Laurence Dunbar · 1899Change1 quote
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the solution. — Gloria Steinem · 1994Changing the world1 quote
Can I do something in my lifetime that can help change the way we are.... Can I help in a little tiny fraction, make it better here? — Maya Lin · 2011