Abraham Lincoln Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Abraham Lincoln:

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time. Barack Obama

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

George H. W. Bush

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Donald Trump

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Benjamin Harrison

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Herbert Hoover

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

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

Things are more like today than they have ever been before.

Gerald R. Ford

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

Gerald R. Ford

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

Barack Obama

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Barack Obama

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

George H. W. Bush

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

Marianne Williamson

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

George H. W. Bush

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

George W. Bush

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Hoover

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Jimmy Carter

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

James Madison

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

William Howard Taft

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Barack Obama

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Harry S Truman

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

George W. Bush

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

Grover Cleveland

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Grover Cleveland