[Billie]

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. ~Thomas Jefferson

American History - Presidents of the United States - who wants to teach today? :)

[Texagirl4W]

Good morning, Billie. I like this one.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

[MEG33]

Good Tuesday Morning to the Finest
Hope you have a wonderful day!

[Feiny]

Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy were assassinated in office.

Assassination attempts were made on the lives of Jackson, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Truman, Ford, and Reagan.

Eight Presidents died in office: W. Harrison (after having served only one month), Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, F. Roosevelt, and Kennedy.

Presidents Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe all died on the 4th of July; Coolidge was born on that day.

[Feiny]

Nine years after leaving the presidency, Taft was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court.

So pleased was he with this career change that he later wrote, "I don't remember that I was ever president."

[EsmeraldaA]

[JustAmy]

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than
the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
~Thomas Jefferson~

[Mama_Bear]

President Reagan, my favorite President of all time. May he rest in peace.

I received these quotes in an e-mail recently. Many of his most famous quotes we have heard over the years, but a couple I had not heard before.

Ronald Reagan's Wisdom

"Here's my strategy on the Cold War:
We win, they lose."

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."

"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong."

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Great thread, Billie, thanks.

One of my favorite pics:

[MEG33]

Thank you, Billie, for a wonderful thread!