#presidents

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. ↗

— Uri Geller

#agencies #because #big #even #heads

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inaugural-address #us-presidents #nature

My friends... ↗

— John McCain

#funny #government #presidents #speech #funny

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780) ↗

— John Adams

#first-amendment #politics #presidents #scholorship #architecture

Writing is the great invention of the world. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#us-presidents #writing #writing-life #inspirational

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#presidents #their #wives

I've played golf with three U.S presidents. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#i #played #presidents #three

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#economy #exercise #expect #how #judge

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#find #i #presidents #rock #roll

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#just #like #predecessors #presidents #their