Presidential (or governing) quotes I admire, especially true today

[Willie99]

Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.
James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, 1877

 

[Willie99]

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Patrick Henry

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[Willie99]

Some brilliant men foresaw the blight of modern day America

 

[Willie99]

"If you like your health insurance, you can keep it"

"Americans consume too much"

"Your jobs are not coming back"

"Americans cling to their guns and bibles"

"You didn't build that"

"Punish your (political) enemies"



Some Presidents are just fucking idiots

 

[Dave007inVegas]

One of my favorites.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

 

[SheriffJoe]

"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money"

"Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,"

- numbnuts

 

[SmallDaddy]

"the electoral college is a disaster for democracy" - Donald Trump

"why does Obama believe he shouldnt comply with record releases that his predecessors did of their own volition? Hiding something?

I am gonna let you take a guess who wrote the second one. hahaha

I could do this all day, boys!!!

 

[Dave007inVegas]

"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money"

"Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,"

- numbnuts

:Carcajada:

 

[TomGshotput]

"I will build a Great Wall and I will make Mexico pay for that Wall."

 

[HamGlaze]

"We have to pass it to see what's in it."

"I voted for it before I voted against it."

 

[Willie99]

"the electoral college is a disaster for democracy" - Donald Trump

"why does Obama believe he shouldnt comply with record releases that his predecessors did of their own volition? Hiding something?

I am gonna let you take a guess who wrote the second one. hahaha

I could do this all day, boys!!!

and you'd lose by a landslide, since you'll lose the battle of substance and policy

y'know, the stuff that matters (or should matter anyhow)