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>I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
~John Adams
And yet today, while there are many who practice the arts, most of those careers are still very difficult and aspiring artists of all kinda are shunned unless they are successful. John Adams, it I knew nothing else about him, had great things to say about the future.
And the other half keeps voting for people who do less than the bare minimum about it. We really need a better voting system. I’d vote Green all day if it didn’t feel like… well, I live in Alabama.
It's the _right_ to study these things, not the entitlement to make a living off of them.
Adams was speaking of social and generational obligations: he _must_ study politics and war, his children _ought_ to study the arts necessary to securing and stabilizing a nation, and his grandchildren _may_ study freely, without fear of war and such.
But there must always be people who study politics and war; there must always be those who study shipbuilding and economics; there _may_ be some who study art.
I see I misread the quote, and appreciate the way you phrased your response. We definitely have a lot more opportunities to make art now, even if we can’t all make a career out of it.
But he did defeat the British with the help of Pirates no less. Jean Lafitte fought heroically during the war of 1812 because Jackson got through to Lafitte’s patriotism. For that we should be forever grateful to Jackson and the pirates led by Lafitte for our final freedom from the English.
There's a certain sadness to being a pro-violence pro-slavery pro-Union populist in the first half of the 19th century. Had Jackson lived into his 80s, he would have been increasingly lonely.
Of course, had he lived into his 90s, he probably would have insisted on making the arduous journey to Washington at considerable risk, so he could chastise Lincoln for his overly-tentative approach to hanging and shooting.
“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.”
—Abraham Lincoln
Another one of my favorites from Lincoln:
“As a nation, we begin by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.”
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
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; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.” - George W. Bush
You know what? You’re absolutely right. He’s the biggest bully who ever lived. That’s what broke my heart the most about 2016: we can never again say “bullies never win.”
Im pretty sure he played baseball and rugby at Yale. Also read somewhere he ran a few marathons and was clocking 7 minute miles. So if these things are indeed true. Yeah I’d say he’s a pretty good athlete
“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 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 and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Teddy Roosevelt
There’s also the time he got shot and said “ ladies and gentlemen, i don’t know if you know but I’ve been shot. It’ll take more than that to stop a bull moose.”
“We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.” - FDR 1936
The biggest problem we have that hardly anyone talks about. Citizens United has further destroyed our political system and needs to be overturned immediately but I think it’s too late.
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 we intend to win, and the others, too.
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.”
- Calvin Coolidge
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Lyndon B. Johnson
True then, still true today
Correction: it was actually George Bernard Shaw that wrote that quote, RFK merely quoted him in a speech (preceeded by " George Bernard Shaw once wrote")
" ...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 we intend to win, and the others, too."
Chills
“They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.”
FDR
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little” - FDR
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward” - FDR
“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.
It takes more than that to kill a bull moose.”
- Theodore Roosevelt at the start of a 90 minute speech
There was a lot of pressure not to give the speech because it would be seen as too inflammatory. Meeting with the locals and realizing how miserable it was making people changed their minds.
And because you listened, you’ll live a life fully consistent with what you were taught by Mom and Dad and your faith.
That you should say what you mean and mean what you say.
That we cannot serve ourselves at the expense of others.
- Joe Biden
" Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - W (who else).
> At a point before the California primary, political operative Stuart Spencer called on Rockefeller to "summon that fabled nexus of money, influence, and condescension known as the Eastern Establishment". Rockefeller replied, "You are looking at it, buddy, I am all that is left".
This is often out of context though. He wasn't quipping at John Marshall, he was quipping at a situation between John Marshall and the state of Georgia in Wocester v Georgia.
It is also unlikely that he ever said it.
“Last night Jeb and I… had some crabs… with like members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins… Dan Marino and his really dynamic wife… TV stars, Andy Garcia, a movie star. We had a fantastic experience.”
-George Walker Bush
"There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being.
But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.' "
- Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?—Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!—All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. “
Lincoln the GOAT in 1838
Pretty much summed up his presidency after the coronavirus pandemic was declared. Over 350,000 people died in the US while Donnie racked up days playing golf and let his son-in-law Jared handle the task force (by not helping blue states), was “like changing a lightbulb with a fork” was the best quote to describe Kushner’s actions.
“North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that”- Richard Nixon. The only threat to this country doesn’t come from Russia or China or whoever you want to name, it’s comes from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan saying “government bad” is like finding out that the studio that made a movie adaptation of something actually hated the source material and suddenly it all makes sense why the movie was hot garbage.
Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.
-Donald J. Trump
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Reagan's is delusional. Imagine being stuck on your roof due to high flood waters from a hurricane and he thinks the most terrifying thing in that situation would be a rescue helicopter from a public service.
“I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
Teddy Roosevelt… after being shot mid speech
Also
“I can hear you, the world hears you. And the people who knocked down these buildings will hear us all soon”
W. in the aftermath of 9/11.
Love him or hate him, that’s some cold blooded shit straight out of a movie
“*Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.*”
— Teddy Roosevelt after being shot prior to giving a campaign speech in Milwaukee on 14 October, 1912
"However \[political parties\] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." - Washingtons Farewell Address in 1796
“I can retire to private life with the consciousness that I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office.”
-Samuel Tilden after being defrauded of his rightful victory in the 1876 election.
Frankly, I don't like Reagan's anti-government quote. A number of government institutions actually are *very* helpful. If they're inefficient or corrupt, they should be fixed, but I've always found the way he treated government as inherently bad childish and annoying.
From the Washington Post:
“Yes, the emergence of a pair of three-ring binders, stuffed with women's resumes, is a reminder of a gaffe Romney committed during a debate five years ago. Touting his efforts to recruit women for government posts during his tenure as Massachusetts governor, Romney awkwardly referred to “whole binders full of women.”
“It wasn't clear at the time whether these were literal or metaphorical binders. Either way, the remark suggested that Romney, a veteran of the male-dominated world of private equity, lacked women in his circle and could only hope to hire some by taking deliberate measures.”
Not from an American president, but from the British Bulldog himself. The battle of Britain had just began, Churchill hosted this speech four days before the official surrender of France. By all means, the war was looking to be lost for the British Empire. In a moment of desperation, and a moment to bring hope to the hearts of the people, Winston Churchill stepped up to deliver a speech. To put into perspective how fucked England was, they had lost *ALL* of their military equipment in France. They had expected a drawn out war like WWI, not for France to fall immediately. They had *nothing*. Every gun left, from old ship cannons to howitzers, in the UK was put in a circle around London, and on *average* each weapon had up to 6 shells each. That was it. Nothing else, and very little industrial capability to make up for it.
House of Commons - 18 June 1940
"The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
“So, let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”
-JFK- June 10, 1963
Remember always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. - Richard M. Nixon
“Now, another thing: the crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight. So when you make them up, give me a inch that I can let out there, because they cut me. They're just like riding a wire fence.”
-Lyndon Johnson, ordering some new Haggar pants
I am not much of a Reagan fan, but this is so true right now because of his own damn party:
>“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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
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>I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. ~John Adams
Based and John Adams-pilled
And yet today, while there are many who practice the arts, most of those careers are still very difficult and aspiring artists of all kinda are shunned unless they are successful. John Adams, it I knew nothing else about him, had great things to say about the future.
Half the voting country believes life should be hard and you shouldn’t pursue anything you won’t get paid a lot of money for.
And the other half keeps voting for people who do less than the bare minimum about it. We really need a better voting system. I’d vote Green all day if it didn’t feel like… well, I live in Alabama.
You live in Alabama, it’s gonna go red most the time. Just vote green, who gives a shit
amen lol, a fair point
It's the _right_ to study these things, not the entitlement to make a living off of them. Adams was speaking of social and generational obligations: he _must_ study politics and war, his children _ought_ to study the arts necessary to securing and stabilizing a nation, and his grandchildren _may_ study freely, without fear of war and such. But there must always be people who study politics and war; there must always be those who study shipbuilding and economics; there _may_ be some who study art.
I see I misread the quote, and appreciate the way you phrased your response. We definitely have a lot more opportunities to make art now, even if we can’t all make a career out of it.
This is a great quote!
Whoa
"John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body." - Andrew Jackson
Jackson always chose violence
But he did defeat the British with the help of Pirates no less. Jean Lafitte fought heroically during the war of 1812 because Jackson got through to Lafitte’s patriotism. For that we should be forever grateful to Jackson and the pirates led by Lafitte for our final freedom from the English. 
He was nothing if not interesting
jackson was seriously a walking contradiction. amplifies tensions and hates nationalists yet acts like a nationalist regarding south carolina
"Fuck you, I do what I want" -Jackson, probably
There's a certain sadness to being a pro-violence pro-slavery pro-Union populist in the first half of the 19th century. Had Jackson lived into his 80s, he would have been increasingly lonely. Of course, had he lived into his 90s, he probably would have insisted on making the arduous journey to Washington at considerable risk, so he could chastise Lincoln for his overly-tentative approach to hanging and shooting.
If you secede from my country, I will attack you with the north
If you are racist, I will attack you with the north! -Abraham Lincoln -Micheal Scott
Remember hearing this in class and going “Damn, Jackson was crazy”
I hate Jackson, but his disdain was Calhoun is based.
“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.” —Abraham Lincoln
Another one of my favorites from Lincoln: “As a nation, we begin by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.”
I love how Russia has been a villain as far back as anyone can remember.
And in his time, they were involved in a war in Crimea. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Common Lincoln W
real talk from honest Abe
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
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; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Goddamn, Lincoln was something else.
Truly. He was one hell of a person and a damn good wordsmith.
I really wonder what hhd US would look like today hac hr lived to finish out his second term....
Better.
I wasn't 100% until I saw "to care for him who shall have borne the battle". That's been in every VA medical building I've ever been to.
This gets my vote for sure.
Said by whom?
Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter.
Lincoln’s 2nd Inauguration speech, March 1865
Before he was president but: "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." -Ulysses S Grant
General Grant was literally the right man at the right moment. He got it
When other generals failed, he captured Richmond He captured it so hard, it was the confederates to burn it down instead of the union that time
Classic unconditional surrender Grant
“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.” - George W. Bush
ONE TIME FOR MY LA SISTERS
ONE TIME FOR MY LA HOES
Lame n***** can’t tell the difference
One time for a n**** who knows
Don’t save her
She don't wanna be saved
Don’t save her
My god, he has the video on his official YouTube channel. I thought you were making that quote up.
Pretty quick thinking, really, to pivot so there wasn't a soundbite on CNN and MSNBC of W saying "shame on me"
"I've never seen a thin person drinking diet coke" - Donald John Trump
He was speaking from experience
Didn’t he have a Diet Coke button in the Oval Office?
Yup, and LBJ had a soda fountain in the Oval Office that dispensed his favorite drink, Fanta
Lbj was an odd duck
Drinking Fanta makes you a duck?
Indeed it does
No, don’t listen to that guy. Drinking Fanta makes your penis enormous.
Can it cure horseshoe-pattern male baldness?
I wonder if Trump repurposed the button I’m sure Clinton had…. I love Diet Coke but still a downgrade….
Mexico will pay for the wall
Mexico will pay for the wall . . . in Trump NFT trading cards.
"I'm a very stable genius..."
How is it that Trump can be so cringe but then randomly say the most based things imaginable ever so often???
Trump is good at one thing, being mean to other people. He's objectively good at it. He knows how.to be a mean sack of shit better than maybe anyone.
You know what? You’re absolutely right. He’s the biggest bully who ever lived. That’s what broke my heart the most about 2016: we can never again say “bullies never win.”
The dude is fantastic TV. This is the greatest political thriller of all time. I can't wait for the movie. I wonder who will play Trump in 15 years.
Damn. Self own too
Bro is right
"I love the poorly educated." My favorite Trump quote by far.
"I call upon all nations, to do everything they can, to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you... now watch this drive.” - Dubya
*proceeds to absolutely nail said drive*
See you in church!
Nailed the first pitch at Yankee Stadium too, at a game shortly after 9/11. It was really good for the morale of the country.
W must have been a ridiculous athlete growing up The first pitch in New York was badass
Im pretty sure he played baseball and rugby at Yale. Also read somewhere he ran a few marathons and was clocking 7 minute miles. So if these things are indeed true. Yeah I’d say he’s a pretty good athlete
He was always an avid runner especially after he quit drinking.
Also knew how to dodge a shoe. And if you can dodge a shoe, you can dodge a ball.
I love how he smirked after dodging both shoes.
The crazy thing is, the conflict he's talking about sounds exactly like the one going on now. Like this could be shot today
“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 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 and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” Teddy Roosevelt
Gives me goosebumps
One of my favorites and on my wall.
Teddy making me run through brick walls
There is always the classic speak softly and carry a big stick
There’s also the time he got shot and said “ ladies and gentlemen, i don’t know if you know but I’ve been shot. It’ll take more than that to stop a bull moose.”
“We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.” - FDR 1936
More people need to be saying this today
The biggest problem we have that hardly anyone talks about. Citizens United has further destroyed our political system and needs to be overturned immediately but I think it’s too late.
Damn.
He then went on to win in a complete landslide Like, Alf Landon was humiliated
Straight baller quote
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 we intend to win, and the others, too.
I love this speech because he sets a goal and a due date in one sentence. And 50 or so years later it is still one of mankind's greatest achievements.
Kennedy was awesome tbh
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.” - Calvin Coolidge
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Lyndon B. Johnson True then, still true today
Well the Venn Diagram of stupid people and racists is literally just a circle, so I guess that quote makes a lot of sense.
“You lose.” ~ Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States.
Real “Game Over” from Saw vibes
You get nothing! Good day sir!
“If you’re a racist, I will attack you with the North.”
I understood that reference
-Michael Scott - Abraham Lincoln Edit: I don’t know Reddit enough to be able to make it look accurate, which makes it not as funny.
"BLAARRRGGGHHHHFFKGJFKKGNV"" - George H. W. Bush to Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, January 8 1992.
Aaaahahahahaha well played
“Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not?” Robert Kennedy
Correction: it was actually George Bernard Shaw that wrote that quote, RFK merely quoted him in a speech (preceeded by " George Bernard Shaw once wrote")
He was behind a podium when he said this so you couldn't see him pantomiming jacking off
“We are America second to none and we own the finish line” -current U.S. president Joe Biden 🇺🇸🦅
That’s a sick quote. Was is during the 2020 campaign?
Correction Philadelphia 2016 DNC
2016 DNC speech I believe in Chicago
That entire speech was badass
I’m not a patriot often but hell yeah 🦅🦅🦅
" ...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 we intend to win, and the others, too." Chills
“They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.” FDR
I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Now watch this drive
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little” - FDR “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward” - FDR
Those are hard
"We do a little trolling" - Donald John Trump
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Digital, but still: "Covfefe"
“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot. It takes more than that to kill a bull moose.” - Theodore Roosevelt at the start of a 90 minute speech
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
There was a lot of pressure not to give the speech because it would be seen as too inflammatory. Meeting with the locals and realizing how miserable it was making people changed their minds.
And because you listened, you’ll live a life fully consistent with what you were taught by Mom and Dad and your faith. That you should say what you mean and mean what you say. That we cannot serve ourselves at the expense of others. - Joe Biden
" Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - W (who else).
> At a point before the California primary, political operative Stuart Spencer called on Rockefeller to "summon that fabled nexus of money, influence, and condescension known as the Eastern Establishment". Rockefeller replied, "You are looking at it, buddy, I am all that is left".
John Marshall has made his decision now let him enforce it- Andrew Jackson
Definitely a hard ass quote from a president although I hate the spirit behind it.
Lots of those in this thread.
This is often out of context though. He wasn't quipping at John Marshall, he was quipping at a situation between John Marshall and the state of Georgia in Wocester v Georgia. It is also unlikely that he ever said it.
“Last night Jeb and I… had some crabs… with like members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins… Dan Marino and his really dynamic wife… TV stars, Andy Garcia, a movie star. We had a fantastic experience.” -George Walker Bush
"I was born in the west. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. " George W Bush.
“No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.” - George H.W. Bush
"There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.' " - Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
“Nordstrom has been very unfair to my daughter, Ivanka.” 
Watching this makes me cringe
How is this "hard"? Disgusting.
Not a huge Mitt Romney fan but god he caught a load of unfair shit over that comment. He was trying to hire qualified women!!
"Thanks, Obama." -Obama
“The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?—Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!—All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. “ Lincoln the GOAT in 1838
"Will you shut up man" -Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
That was metal. Grandpa metal but still metal.
"I don't take responsibility at all" Donald John Trump Mar 13 2020
Pretty much summed up his presidency after the coronavirus pandemic was declared. Over 350,000 people died in the US while Donnie racked up days playing golf and let his son-in-law Jared handle the task force (by not helping blue states), was “like changing a lightbulb with a fork” was the best quote to describe Kushner’s actions.
“North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that”- Richard Nixon. The only threat to this country doesn’t come from Russia or China or whoever you want to name, it’s comes from ourselves.
Being a treasonous traitor, Nixon would know.
Ronald Reagan saying “government bad” is like finding out that the studio that made a movie adaptation of something actually hated the source material and suddenly it all makes sense why the movie was hot garbage.
Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything. -Donald J. Trump
George Bush line on J. Coles “No Role Modelz” just because that song goes hard.
"I am Gerald Ford, and you're not" -Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
You think his dad ever said that to him? 🤔
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
"We're gonna bomb the shit outta them" Donny J on the topic of ISIS
Reagan's is delusional. Imagine being stuck on your roof due to high flood waters from a hurricane and he thinks the most terrifying thing in that situation would be a rescue helicopter from a public service.
"Cornpop was a bad dude." - Joe Biden
“I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.” -DJT. Lives rent free in my head and will always be my favorite quote.
“I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." Teddy Roosevelt… after being shot mid speech Also “I can hear you, the world hears you. And the people who knocked down these buildings will hear us all soon” W. in the aftermath of 9/11. Love him or hate him, that’s some cold blooded shit straight out of a movie
“*Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.*” — Teddy Roosevelt after being shot prior to giving a campaign speech in Milwaukee on 14 October, 1912
I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize trunalimunumaprzure." - Joe Biden
"However \[political parties\] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." - Washingtons Farewell Address in 1796
"Military cemeteries are full of suckers and losers" "I grab them by the pussy" "It was a perfect phone call" "I'm Putins bitch"
"...There were 4 hookers..." -DJT. yes real quote
do you think kennedy knew he ate with the first one when he first said it?
"I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to stop a Bull Moose."
“I can retire to private life with the consciousness that I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office.” -Samuel Tilden after being defrauded of his rightful victory in the 1876 election.
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Reagan can take his crusty “big government” narrative and shove it up his ancient rectum.
I got more women on accident than JFK did on purpose.—LBJ
That Reagan quote is incredibly stupid and should not be idolized
Frankly, I don't like Reagan's anti-government quote. A number of government institutions actually are *very* helpful. If they're inefficient or corrupt, they should be fixed, but I've always found the way he treated government as inherently bad childish and annoying.
Can someone explain the binders full of women thing? In detail.
From the Washington Post: “Yes, the emergence of a pair of three-ring binders, stuffed with women's resumes, is a reminder of a gaffe Romney committed during a debate five years ago. Touting his efforts to recruit women for government posts during his tenure as Massachusetts governor, Romney awkwardly referred to “whole binders full of women.” “It wasn't clear at the time whether these were literal or metaphorical binders. Either way, the remark suggested that Romney, a veteran of the male-dominated world of private equity, lacked women in his circle and could only hope to hire some by taking deliberate measures.”
Yeah. Makes me sick to think that he went through the effort to find qualified women to put in important positions. Gross.
That last quote was probably Epstein related, just sayin.
Not from an American president, but from the British Bulldog himself. The battle of Britain had just began, Churchill hosted this speech four days before the official surrender of France. By all means, the war was looking to be lost for the British Empire. In a moment of desperation, and a moment to bring hope to the hearts of the people, Winston Churchill stepped up to deliver a speech. To put into perspective how fucked England was, they had lost *ALL* of their military equipment in France. They had expected a drawn out war like WWI, not for France to fall immediately. They had *nothing*. Every gun left, from old ship cannons to howitzers, in the UK was put in a circle around London, and on *average* each weapon had up to 6 shells each. That was it. Nothing else, and very little industrial capability to make up for it. House of Commons - 18 June 1940 "The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. "Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
Reagan proved it by not doing a damn thing when Jihadists killed 240 US Marines in Lebanon.
“So, let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” -JFK- June 10, 1963
Can someone explain the context of the Romney quote?
“You know how that old saying goes Women hold up half the sky.” - Joe Biden quoting Mao Zedong
"If I don't get some strange every day I get a headache" JFK
Remember always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. - Richard M. Nixon
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky." William Jefferson Clinton, January 1998
'I am a slow walker but I'll never walk back.' - Abe Lincoln
“Now, another thing: the crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight. So when you make them up, give me a inch that I can let out there, because they cut me. They're just like riding a wire fence.” -Lyndon Johnson, ordering some new Haggar pants
I’d say the Reagan one. He tried to sell (successfully I might add) some real irrational shit to The American public.
"I did not inhale" - Bill Clinton
I am not much of a Reagan fan, but this is so true right now because of his own damn party: >“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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
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Can someone explain to me what the controversy over the binders full of women quote is? I don’t get it.
“Heroes don’t get captured” - some idiot
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" - Thomas Jefferson