FAMOUS QUOTES

Round 1 – The Presidential Team

John F. Kennedy: And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.  

Abraham Lincoln: It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

   

Ronald Reagan: Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.  

Mao Zedong: Politics is war carried out without bloodshed, while war is politics carried out with bloodshed.

John F. Kennedy: Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.  

Bill Clinton: As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.  

Abraham Lincoln: It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. 

Georges Pompidou: A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. 

Jimmy Carter: America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.  

Franklin D. Roosevelt: We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.  

Woodrow Wilson: I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!