Happy Presidents' Day!

Happy Presidents Day, and with gratitude to the great leaders our nation has been fortunate to have. Below are words of wisdom from the ten U.S. presidents who topped  C-SPAN's 2021 Presidential Historians Survey.

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”― George Washington

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”― Ronald Reagan

“Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ” ― Harry S. Truman

“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln

Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government. - Thomas Jefferson

“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." -John F. Kennedy

“There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.”― Barack Obama