Famous Quotes/US Gov't

"For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation." 

• John F. Kennedy, 1962

• Richard Nixon, 1965

• Gerald Ford, 1970

• Bobby Kennedy, 1968

"No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power."

• John F. Kennedy, 1963

• Richard Nixon, 1973

• Ronald Reagan, 1984

• Harry Truman, 1953

"And what we have said today is that we shall build that bridge. And because the Chinese people and the American people, as the Prime Minister has said, are a great people, we can build that long bridge."

• John F. Kennedy, 1963

• Richard Nixon, 1972

• Ronald Reagan, 1984

• Harry Truman, 1953

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

• John F. Kennedy, 1961

• Richard Nixon, 1969

• Harry Truman, 1945

"Civilization cannot go back; civilization must not stand still. We have undertaken new methods. It is our task to perfect, to improve, to alter when necessary, but in all cases to go forward. To consolidate what we are doing, to make our economic and social structure capable of dealing with modern life is the joint task of the legislative, the judicial, and the executive branches of the national Government"

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1934

• John F. Kennedy, 1961

• Richard Nixon, 1969

• Harry Truman, 1945

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

• Harry S. Truman, 1945

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

• John F. Kennedy, 1961

Final stages of World War II included the problem of defeating Japan with minimal American casualties. ______asked Moscow to invade from he north, and decided to drop two atomic bombs.

• Truman

• Kennedy

• Nixon

• Johnson

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

• John F. Kennedy, 1961

• Richard Nixon, 1969

• Harry Truman, 1945

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

• John F. Kennedy, 1961

• Richard Nixon, 1969

• Harry Truman, 1945

“You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city’s white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.”

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• JFK

• Michelle Obama