for President's Day

Some great quotes from a few of my favorite presidents.  Enjoy!


"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."    —George Washington (1st president)


"That book [the Bible], Sir, is the Rock upon which our Republic rests."    —Andrew Jackson (17th president)


"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."    —George Washington (1st president)

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."    —Ronald Reagan (39th president)

 "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."    —George Washington (1st president)

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress."    —Ronald Reagan (39th president)

"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer."    —Ronald Reagan (39th president)

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."    —George Washington (1st president)

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."    —Ronald Reagan (39th president)

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."    —Abraham Lincoln (16th president)

"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."    —Ronald Reagan (39th president)

 "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. "    —Abraham Lincoln (16th president)