Antonym Puzzle The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. -- John Adams Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity! -- John Quincey Adams An 1 politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. -- Simon Cameron I would rather be right than president. -- Henry Clay I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honour. -- Grover Cleveland This office-seeking is a disease. It is even catching. -- Grover Cleveland In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. -- S. T. Coleridge The business of America is business. -- Calvin Coolidge I should like to be known as a former president who tries to mind his own business. -- Calvin Coolidge At Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time. -- R.W. Emerson He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -- Benjamin Franklin At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. -- Benjamin Franklin Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Benjamin Franklin There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin Fellow-citizens: God reigns and the Government at Washington lives! -- James A. Garfield All free governments are party governments. -- James A. Garfield I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer. -- Ulysses S. Grant Let us have peace. -- Ulysses S. Grant He serves his party best who serves the country best. -- Rutherford B. Hayes Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why. -- Sidney Hillman Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. --Herbert Hoover The American system is one of rugged individualism. -- Herbert They are playing politics at the expense of human misery. -- Herbert Hoover Our Federal Union: it must be preserved. -- Andrew Jackson You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see. -- Andrew Jackson Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. -- Thomas Jefferson [Our country is] in the full tide of successful experiment. -- Thomas Jefferson A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. -- Thomas Jefferson Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. -- Thomas Jefferson Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none. -- Thomas Jefferson Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. -- Thomas Jefferson When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. -- Thomas Jefferson Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. -- John F. Kennedy forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -- Henry Kissinger People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. -- Abraham Lincoln So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! -- Abraham Lincoln My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union. . . -- Abraham Lincoln A house divided against itself cannot stand. -- Abraham Lincoln If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. -- Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abe Lincoln What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? -- Abraham Lincoln When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. -- Abraham Lincoln The ballot is stronger than the bullet. -- Abraham Lincoln I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. -- Abraham Lincoln It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. -- Abraham Lincoln The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them. -- Abraham Lincoln As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. -- Abraham Lincoln The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. -- Eugene McCarthy Our differences are policies, our agreements principles. -- William McKinley Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt I pledge you - I pledge myself - to a new deal for the American people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill- clad, ill- nourished. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. -- Theodore Roosevelt The fathers who gave us this government were not graduated from soap-boxes. -- Joseph S. Scott A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of trouble. -- Adlai Stevenson In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take. __ Adlai Stevenson Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. -- R.L. Stevenson The buck stops here. -- Harry S. Truman If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. -- Harry S. Truman Politics make strange bedfellows. -- Charles Dudley Warner Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. -- George Washington Put none but Americans on guard to-night. -- George Washington Father, I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet. -- George Washington Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. -- Oscar Wilde There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. -- Woodrow Wilson The world must be made safe for democracy. -- Woodrow Wilson We have stood apart, studiously neutral. -- Woodrow Wilson open covenants of peace openly arrived at. -- Woodrow Wilson