“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, dramatically, in the final scene featured in the trailer for his high-budget/high-concept action film “Big Stick”
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September 6, 2011“A man is not finished when he’s defeated; he’s finished when he quits.”
- Richard M. Nixon, on losing to Vice President Spiro Agnew in a game of checkers, shortly before flipping the board over and walking away from the table
Great Presidential Quotes #5
July 1, 2011“We have only two things to fear: fear itself … and zombies.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1942 after hearing of Hitler’s plans to synthesize a virus that would turn all Britons into zombies.
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June 20, 2011“Where the children of rich and poor mingle together on the playground and in the schoolroom, there is produced a unity of feeling and a popular love for public institutions that can be brought about in no other way.”
- Benjamin Harrison, while visiting a public high school, moments before a rich kid stuffed a poor kid into a locker
Great Presidential Quotes #3
March 28, 2011“Independence forever!”
- John Quincy Adams, barely clothed, running through the streets on the 4th of July.
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March 8, 2011“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
- Andrew Jackson, giving his son The Talk
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February 23, 2011“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
– Bill Clinton, getting an A on his Philosophy 110 final
