The world has been bestowed with bright and poignant leaders, who have helped shaped the current generation and made the world a better place. Some of them may be long gone but their reputation and leadership have echoed up until the present time. These notable individuals are not afraid to speak up the truth and be the voice of the people. And consequently, they have successfully created distinctive inspirational movements in their own ways. Here are some of the best presidential quotes.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people’s souls and thoughts.”
– Herbert Hoover
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.”
– James Monroe
“The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.”
– William Henry Harrison
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
– Barack Obama
“Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.”
– John F. Kennedy
“…Only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain…”
– Richard Nixon
