You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.

― Geraldine Ferraro

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

― Lady Bird Johnson

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

― Mick Jagger

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day’s very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

― John Hunt Morgan

The best way of reading the market is to read from the standpoint of values.

― Charles Dow

I don’t know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

― Sandra Day O’Connor

Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

― Serena Williams

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

― Jerry Seinfeld

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.

― Declaration of Independence

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.

― George Washington

Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning, and it is not best to worry about either.

― President James A. Garfield

Never fear your enemies, fear your action.

― George Meade

Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.

― Margaret Mitchell

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty…

― The Virginia Declaration of Rights

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.

― Ferdinand Foch, French marshal, on the 1919 Treaty of Versailles

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

― James Smithson

When in doubt, go to the library.

― J. K. Rowling

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

― President Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

― President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Live Free or Die.

― New Hampshire State Motto

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

― Daniel Boone

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

― General Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Don’t give up the ship!” 

–Captain James Lawrence

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” 

–Walt Whitman

“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.” 

–Clara Barton, Founder of American Red Cross

“An expert knows all the answers – if you ask the right questions.” 

–Levi Strauss

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” 

–Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“The Father of the Waters again goes unvexed to the Sea.” 

–Abraham Lincoln, after notice of Vicksburg’s surrender

“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.” 

–L. Frank Baum

“I feel the need … the need for speed!” 

–Maverick & Goose, Top Gun 1986

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” 

–Emily Dickinson

“Do not let yourself be forced into doing anything before you are ready.” 

-The Wright Brothers

“If you don’t use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.” 

-Alan Shephard

“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.” 

– President James K. Polk

“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.” 

– William Taft, 27th President and 10th Chief Justice

“To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected.” 

– Rutherford B. Hayes