#presidents

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inaugural-address #us-presidents #nature

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780) ↗

— John Adams

#first-amendment #politics #presidents #scholorship #architecture

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#angels #civil-war #democracy #destiny #determination

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." ↗

— Mark Twain

#editors #kings #only #people #presidents

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done. ↗

— Julian Castro

#before #care #democrats #done #expand

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#came #draw #i #i came #i wish

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#find #i #presidents #rock #roll

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#gods #government #house #in fact #men

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#just #like #predecessors #presidents #their