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
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
— Thomas Jefferson
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
Men and times change—but principles—never.
— Grover Cleveland
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
— John F. Kennedy
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
— Jimmy Carter
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
— George W. Bush
If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.
