Famous Presidential Saying

Famous Presidential Saying

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

In a letter to Abigail Adams, September 11, 1804, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
"Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them,...But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature and the executive also, in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch."

President George Washington wrote to the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Churches in North America:
"While just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support."

President Abraham Lincoln addressed the Indians Regiment:
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

President Abraham Lincoln addressed the Committee of Colored People from Baltimore, acknowledging the elegant Bible they had presented him:
"In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, I believe the Bible is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for this Book we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it. To you I return my most sincere thanks for the elegant copy of the great Book of God which you present."

Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law. Unknown

“Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody”Henry David Thoreau

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.Barbara Bush