1. Abraham Lincoln - “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

3. George Washington - “The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.”

4. Thomas Jefferson - “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. . . the Almighty has no attribute that can take side with us in such a contest.”

5. Theodore Roosevelt - “No Man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expedience.”

6. Andrew Jackson - “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”
 
7. Woodrow Wilson - “The history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”

8. Harry S. Truman - “When even one American - who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all of Americans are in peril.” 

9. James K. Polk -“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.” 

10. Dwight Eisenhower - “Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed”

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