Today’s quote comes from Woodrow Wilson. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. …
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Presidential Quote #5: James Garfield
File under: Presidents can be funny. Also file under: Did he say this or didn’t he? And: maybe the internet does not know everything! (There is evidence to say: HE DID NOT.) What he definitely said: Do you have a favorite presidential quote? If so, send it to me! sarah.n.aronson@gmail.com. I would love to share…
Presidential Quote #4: Franklin D Roosevelt
Today’s quotes come from FDR. (I couldn’t choose.) And the quote that every writer I know can identify with: “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In…
Presidential Quote #3: Dwight D Eisenhower
Here is an important statement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending…
Presidential Quote #2
I could quote President Barack Obama every day until Election Day! (He was the President I quoted in the last chapter of Beyond Lucky, too!) Like so many other Americans, I was moved when he spoke about CHANGE: Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are…
Obsessed with politics?
Ever since my mom asked me to make posters for George McGovern, I have been interested in politics. And why not? We elect leaders to make this world better. I have never missed the opportunity to vote. When I was living in New Hampshire, I met many candidates. My son, Elliot, discovered presidential trivia when…