The World Almanac of Presidential Quotations: Quotations from America's PresidentsElizabeth Frost-Knappman Pharos Books, 1993 - 282 strani More than 3,000 presidential quotes in one volume. Thomas Jefferson on Congress: That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. John F. Kennedy on Richard Nixon: Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House. Lyndon Johnson on justice: Justice means a man's hope should not be limited by the color of his skin. Theodore Roosevelt on William McKinley: McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair. George Washington on corruption: Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. Bill Clinton on error: It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half. Harry Truman on his campaign: I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell. "The World Almanac of Presidential Quotations" collects more than 3,000 quotes from America's forty-two presidents from Washington to Clinton and arranges them by over 300 categories. Compiled from speeches, off-hand comments, letters and memoirs, these quotations present a revealing look at the men who have reached America's highest office. |
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Accomplishment | 1 |
Appeasement | 9 |
Assassination | 15 |
Banks 21 | 49 |
Economics | 69 |
Elections | 75 |
Evil | 81 |
France | 88 |
Radicals | 197 |
Republican Party | 203 |
Roosevelt | 209 |
Scandals | 215 |
Prejudice 172 | 235 |
Trade and Commerce | 240 |
Martin Van Buren | 247 |
War | 253 |
Ideas | 107 |
Future 92 | 119 |
Honesty 104 | 135 |
Morals | 141 |
George Washington | 262 |
Bibliography | 269 |
Author Index | 275 |
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