Presidents can be presidential, pretendential, or just p....

Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 02:53 PM

Some president's make grand statements that history prove to have been prescient.  Some make grand statements that fade rapidly from memory because the grandness is thinly wrapped around a vacuum.  Others make....statements.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bring them on.
George W. Bush

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

I believe all these things because freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is the Almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world.
George W. Bush

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon

You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal
Richard M. Nixon

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?
George W. Bush

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our
right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions.
Theodore Roosevelt

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan