The World Almanac of Presidential Quotations: Quotations from America's Presidents

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Elizabeth 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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