Happy Presidents Day!

As BFF D posted on Facebook, we are actually celebrating Presidents Day today for the first time in a long, long while.

Lincoln has always been my favorite president. I wrote a paper about him in the sixth grade and I've been a devoted follower ever since. With that, I've found many quotes from him that I adore:



Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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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.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.





I couldn't find quotes that rang as true from George Washington, though I am sure there are many....


We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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And then, there is our newest Superhero:

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them.
President Barack Obama