"We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line."

-Joe Biden

"If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."

-James Madison

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company."

-Anonymous ( From 'Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation', a school book of George Washington )

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds"

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."

-Andrew Jackson

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

-Harry S. Truman

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

-John F. Kennedy

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"I am a firm believer in the people. If Given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer."

-Abraham Lincoln ( Refrigerator Magnet )

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Liberty and peace are living things. In each generation - if they are to be maintained -they must be guarded and vitalized anew."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt ( Address on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, 1936 )

"Always stand on principle even if you stand alone."

-John Adams

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."

-John F. Kennedy