Quotes from Presidents...
2strokebloke
08-13-2008, 06:16 AM
Just to show that some things never change, a list of some of my favorite quotes from some of my favorite and least favorite politicians (and I know MacArthur was never a president, but the quote fits anyway)
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"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
Teddy Roosevelt
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits."
Woodrow Wilson
"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."
Teddy Roosevelt
“I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.”
Harding
“I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.”
Harding (reads like a Jack Handy deep thought)
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people"
Taft
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. "
MacArthur
And just to round it all out a few classics from somebody that make Bush Jr. look like a rocket scientist:
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
Dan Quayle
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"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
Teddy Roosevelt
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits."
Woodrow Wilson
"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."
Teddy Roosevelt
“I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.”
Harding
“I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.”
Harding (reads like a Jack Handy deep thought)
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people"
Taft
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. "
MacArthur
And just to round it all out a few classics from somebody that make Bush Jr. look like a rocket scientist:
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
Dan Quayle
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