Presidential
Quotes

And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
- John F. Kennedy

We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom -freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise...Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history, and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.
- Ronald Reagan

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is richer for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
- Abraham Lincoln