“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort,” President T. Roosevelt.

“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.” – On Criticizing the Presidency

“Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star”, 149 May 7, 1918

“By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time,” President Nixon on Golf

“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions,” President Obama

President John Adams

” In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a Congress,” President John Adams

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table,” President Reagan

“We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately,” Benjamin Franklin

“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves,” Thomas Jefferson

Is this still true? Aren’t we in the habit of running to our government everytime something happens nowadays? As if we’re addicted to government solutions for all our problems.

Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

- Theodore Roosevelt