Quotable President for President's Day

Today is President's Day, and if you're anything like me, you're wondering how does a person even celebrate Presidents Day. 

While many rushed out to hit up the local Presidents Day sales, I thought a different but timely thing to do would be to reflect on the 44 Presidents of the USA; their cool under immense pressure, their bravery when facing insurmountable odds, and to grasp a small piece of their wisdom to apply to our every day lives as citizens and members of this potentially great country. 

Here are my personal favorite quotes by Preaidents of the United States:

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“Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.” – Harry S. Truman

He serves his party best who serves the country best.”  – Rutherford B. Hayes

“In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.” –Theodore Roosevelt

“Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters." – Grover Cleveland

“Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.” –Herbert Hoover

“If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.” – John Adams

“Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.” – George H.W. Bush

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“Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind. ” – John F. Kennedy

“A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” – Lyndon Johnson

“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.” – Benjamin Harrison

“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.” –William McKinley

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." James Madison

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Addams

"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory." Millard Filmore

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln 

"For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all." Rutherford B. Hayes

"We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage." Teddy Roosevelt

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb ... Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” Calvin Coolidge

"If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe." Lyndon B. Johnson

"Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose." Jimmy Carter

"The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave." Ronald Reagan

"No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit." George Bush Sr

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit." Bill Clinton

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"One voice can change a room. And if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world." Barack Obama