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The article deals with inspiring or food for thought quotes and wise sayings of people whose citizenship is American. These Americans are: I) Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Bob Dylan, Calvin Coolidge, George Washington, James Madison, Jeff Sessions, Mike Pompeo, and Patrick Henry; II) Dale Carnegie, James Comer, Joel Kotkin, Martin Luther King Jr., Max Ehrmann, Nick LaLota, Steve Scalise, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson; and III) Dwight Eisenhower, John Adams, Mike Pompeo, Robert Gates, Ronald Reagan, Steve Scalise, Thomas Edison, Ulysses Grant and William James.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTES

 

Quote: “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.” – Abraham Lincoln

 

Quote: “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.” – Abraham Lincoln

 

Quote: “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.” – Abraham Lincoln

ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTES

 

Quote: “For a community of standardized individuals without personal originality and personal aims would be a poor community without possibilities for development.” – Albert Einstein

 

Quote: “To me the worst thing seems to be for a school principally to work with methods of fear, force, and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity, and the self-confidence of the pupil. It produces the submissive subject.” – Albert Einstein

 

Quote: “The value of a man… should be seen in what he gives and not what he is able to receive.” – Albert Einstein


BENJAMIN FRANKLIN QUOTES

 

Quote: “He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.” – Benjamin Franklin

 

Quote: “Humility makes great men honorable.” – Benjamin Franklin

 

Quote: “To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.” – Benjamin Franklin

BOB DYLAN QUOTES

 

Quote: “How many times can a man turn his head, pretending he just doesn’t see? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. The answer is blowin’ in the wind.” – Bob Dylan

 

Quote: “The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast. The slow one now will later be fast. As the present now will later be past, the order is rapidly fadin’ and the first one now will later be last. For the times, they are a-changin’.” – Bob Dylan

 

Quote: “How does it feel?

To hang on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?” – Bob Dylan


CALVIN COOLIDGE QUOTES

 

Quote: “If coming generations are to maintain a like spirit, it will be because they continue to study the lives and times of the great men who have been the leaders in our history, and continue to support the principles which those men represented.” – Calvin Coolidge

 

Quote: “By being servants of the truth you can help to create and support that confidence in our institutions, and in each other, which is the foundation of national progress and prosperity.” – Calvin Coolidge

 

Quote: “There is no greater service that we can render the oppressed of the earth than to maintain inviolate the freedom of our own citizens.” – Calvin Coolidge

GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES

 

Quote: “Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” – George Washington

 

Quote: “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington

 

Quote: “Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.” – George Washington


JAMES MADISON QUOTES

 

Quote: “As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.” – James Madison

 

Quote: “The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison

 

Quote: “The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon… has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” – James Madison

JEFF SESSIONS QUOTES

 

Quote: “The United States of America is not a vague idea.  It is not just a landmass or an economy.  Ours is a sovereign nation state with a constitution, laws, elections, and borders.” – Jeff Sessions

 

Quote: “… the first civil right is the right to be safe. That’s why… we are hammering the criminals and violent groups…. We’re on the side of law and order – and we back the blue, not the criminals. We want every American to live in peace.” – Jeff Sessions

 

Quote: “The most important time to defend a valued right is when it is being attacked or eroded.” – Jeff Sessions


MIKE POMPEO QUOTES

 

Quote: “Every nation has a right and a duty to secure its borders. And when democratic nations do this well, it promotes stability, reduces conflict and diminishes opportunities for adversaries to undermine free societies.” – Mike Pompeo (and Rebeccah L. Heinrichs)

 

Quote: “Our nation is rooted in the courage to declare and fight for the truth, ‘That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’” – Mike Pompeo

 

Quote: “The spirit of free people, not the vulgar materialism and repression of Communism, is eternal and universal.” – Mike Pompeo

PATRICK HENRY QUOTES

 

Quote: “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.” – Patrick Henry

 

Quote: “My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him and with all else you’ll never be happy.” – Patrick Henry

 

Quote: “It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.” – Patrick Henry


Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
George Washington
George Washington

Mike Pompeo
Mike Pompeo
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry

DALE CARNEGIE QUOTES

 

Quote: “I am tremendously interested in what religion does for me…. It gives me faith, hope, and courage. It banishes tensions, anxieties, fears, and worries. It gives purpose to my life – and direction. It vastly improves my happiness.” – Dale Carnegie

 

Quote: “I close my eyes and pray. I find that doing this calms my nerves, rests my body, clarifies my perspective, and helps me revalue my values.” – Dale Carnegie

 

Quote: “Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw the mud, the other saw stars.” – Dale Carnegie

JAMES COMER QUOTES

 

Quote: “Our senior citizens have spent a lifetime supporting our communities and raising future generations, including my own. That is why it is so important to me that we care for them through the services provided in this bill [Older Americans Act – OAA] including the Meals on Wheels program and caregiver support services.” – James Comer

 

Quote: “No veteran should worry about being able to access and receive the services they earned during their time protecting our freedoms.” – James Comer

 

Quote: “As a new Member of Congress, one of my top priorities was to stay connected with constituents back home. I made a promise to visit each county in my district by the end of the year [2017]. Kentuckians know that it is not easy to get from one end of the 1st District to the other, but I am proud to say that I kept my promise.” – James Comer


JOEL KOTKIN QUOTES

 

Quote: “Biden’s climate plan is a threat to democracy…. the climate agenda lacks one critical element: public support… Now, instead of mobilising the masses, the climate lobby increasingly rejects the idea of popular consent.” – Joel Kotkin

 

Quote: “The technological revolution once promised a new era of expanded democracy and enhanced opportunity. Instead, we face today a reality that blends the worst aspects of George Orwell’s Big Brother and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World controllers.” – Joel Kotkin

 

Quote: “We’re adopting the kind of education [in America] perfected in Stalin’s Russia…. today’s academic field – and not just in America – increasingly engages in a holy war against Western civilisation itself. Whole centuries seem to be vanishing from our classrooms.” – Joel Kotkin

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. QUOTES

 

Quote: “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Quote: “Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Quote: “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.


MAX EHRMANN QUOTES

 

Quote: “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.” – Max Ehrmann

 

Quote: “Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.” – Max Ehrmann

 

Quote: “You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.” – Max Ehrmann

NICK LALOTA QUOTES

 

Quote: “Service above self.” – Nick LaLota

 

Quote: “Infrastructure projects and improvements are vital for enhancing our communities and the well-being of Long Island families.” – Nick LaLota

 

Quote: “Ensuring food security is fundamental to safeguarding our national interests.” – Nick LaLota


STEVE SCALISE QUOTES

 

Quote: “Every child in America deserves an equal opportunity to get a quality education, and all parents should be able to make the best educational choices for their children. Choice in education is key to providing students and parents with the hope and opportunity that they deserve….” – Steve Scalise

 

Quote: “Our continued success as a leading innovator in the global economy depends on a 21st century education, beginning with a strong foundation in science, engineering, technology, mathematics and the computer sciences.” – Steve Scalise

 

Quote: “America is committed to protecting our telecommunications networks and the data security of our nation.” – Steve Scalise

SUSAN B. ANTHONY QUOTES

 

Quote: “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” – Susan B. Anthony

 

Quote: “Nothing is hopeless that is right.” – Susan B. Anthony

 

Quote: “I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.” – Susan B. Anthony


THEODORE ROOSEVELT QUOTES

 

Quote: “In modern life it is as important to work for the cause of just and righteous peace in the industrial world as in the world of nations.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 

Quote: “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 

Quote: “Every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people.” – Theodore Roosevelt

THOMAS JEFFERSON QUOTES

 

Quote: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson

 

Quote: “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” – Thomas Jefferson

 

Quote: “I cannot live without books.” – Thomas Jefferson


Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nick Lalota
Nick Lalota
Steve Scalise
Steve Scalise
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson