To celebrate Presidents’ Day, those of us at HighGround thought it useful, given the state of our politics today, to reiterate some of the wisdom of our past Presidents as it relates to the existence of our Federal Republic.
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some transatlantic military giant to step the earth and crush us a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia… could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we will live forever or die by suicide.” – Abraham Lincoln
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” – John Adams
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger. But the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions.” – George Washington
“Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.” – Richard Nixon
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson
Let us dream together then, of a better future, a country that no longer hates itself, that is welcoming to the widow and the orphan, and that is focused on getting along with one another. That is a country that is prosperous and not suicidal.
God Bless America.