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This is a list of quotes that are either famous, brilliant, wise, or amusing.

Contents 1 George W. Bush 1.1 Bushisms 2 Thomas Jefferson 3 Abraham Lincoln

[edit] George W. Bush

[edit] Bushisms

• (In answer to the question: "Is the tide turning in Iraq?") "I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?"
• "We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job."
• "I'm also mindful that man should never try to put words in God's mouth. I mean, we should never ascribe natural disasters or anything else, to God. We are in no way, shape, or form should a human being play God."
• "I believe we are called to do the hard work to make our communities and quality of life a better place."
• "I refuse to be sucked into your hypnotheoretical arguments."
• "I hear there's rumors on the uh... Internets that we're going to have a draft."
• "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."
• "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."
• "The best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forth to describe the location of the hole, is to give clues and data."
• "This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed."
• "As you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say."
• "The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the — the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."
• "Whether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, people have heard the universal call to love a neighbor just like they'd like to be called themselves."
• "This is a country which recently was attacked by a suicider that killed innocent children and women, people that were celebrating in a restaurant."
• "We've had leaks out of the administrative branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative branch, and I've spoken out consistently against them, and I want to know who the leakers are."
• "I'm so pleased to be able to say hello to Bill Scranton. He's one of the great Pennsylvania political families."
• "I think war is a dangerous place."
• "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
• "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."
• "I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically."
• "A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-- Hispanically owned or otherwise--pay taxes at the highest marginal rate."
• "The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses, the South Koreans."
• "If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow."
• "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
• "They misunderestimated me."
• "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
• "I understand small business growth. I was one."
• "We ought to make the pie higher."
• "It's your money. You paid for it."
• "The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."
• "The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house."

[edit] Thomas Jefferson

• "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
• "Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance."
• "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
• "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
• "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
• "Delay is preferable to error."
• "We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."
• "There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive."
• "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
• "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
• "I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."
• "What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong."
• "When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."
• "We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

[edit] Abraham Lincoln

• "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
• "Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary... and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
• "The mystic chords of memory... will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
• "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."
• "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free."
• "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 are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...."
• "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...."