“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”

Woodrow Wilson

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”

John F. Kennedy

“The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”

Benjamin Franklin

“The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.”

Daniel Webster

“I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.”

Andrew Jackson

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”

Omar N. Bradley

“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.”

Grover Cleveland

“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Ideas control the world.”

James A. Garfield 

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

Abraham Lincoln

“An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.”

Henry Clay

“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”

George Washington