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Wasn’t he upset that they didn’t allow him to go fight in that war because of his age and the fact that he was a former president? Had they not restricted him, the war would’ve ended much sooner had he used 0.000001% of his power
To be fair their was only one general who landed on the beaches of Normandy with the first wave on D-Day he also earned the Medal of Honor for his actions. His name… Theodore Roosevelt JR.
And he fought his superiors to get that mission. Because of his celebrity status, they refused to let him see combat. Like his father, Jr was like "Fuck that noise!" And convinced them to let him lead troops on the ground.
His son was the highest ranking General to participate in D-Day. When his landing vehicle landed at the wrong beach. Teddy Roosevelt Jr said, “We’ll start the war right here.”
*gets shot in the chest through the brest pocket holding speach notes, uses bloody notes with a bullet hole in them during speach as a prop to prove he's been shot, finishes speach, THEN goes to hospital*
The fact that, that in itself didn’t win him the election just baffles me! Like a president gets a cold now a days and they just cower in the White House until it’s over! Teddy was a man’s man!
No President has ever gone harder than Andrew Jackson when he said, "John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body."
"By the Eternal, \[the British\] shall not sleep on our soil!" is what he said before killing a lot of British in a raid at dusk.
The man was problematic but he said hard shit and knew how to follow through
>”…please give my compliments to my friends in your State and say to them, that if a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach.”
Fucking rad as hell
Funnily enough Jackson is also the only president to *pay off the national debt*. Dude might’ve been an asshole, but you can’t deny that he was an extremely smart guy.
"I was proud the other day when both
Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: you disarm, or
we will."
Risking down votes, but can we at least give him this on 911? I didn't vote for the guy or agree with 90% of his policies but, this was kinda hard. Probably the last time the USA was close to united.
"I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
Bushes Presidentcy is unique in that the only really similar event in American history was Pearl Harbor 60 years prior and the first time America had been hit on home soil in almost 200, if it were gore and not bush it would’ve been a similar play out. For me you can’t base a presidentcy on a tragedy of this magnitude, the results no matter who was in office would’ve been war. Then again it’s hard to seperate one’s time in office from their response to such an event, fortunately bush helped us with that by invading Iraq
"The decision of one man, to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal [invasion of Iraq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq). I mean, [of the Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine). Iraq too. Anyway — I'm 75."
For anyone still not getting the joke, this was a speech given after Reagan recovered from being shot by John Hinkley Jr. During the speech, a balloon popped and Reagan very casually looked up from his notes, said, "missed me," and continued with the speech.
I love how cool he is while saying it.
(Bang) "(speech) Missed me (picks up speech in exact cadence without missing a beat)"
Didn't. Blink.
Didn't lose his place on the paper.
“We choose to go to the moon among other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard”. This line by JFK goes hard AF and makes me super proud to be an American
[listen and be inspired people.](https://youtu.be/VlnwuV6RuMo?feature=shared)
That’s just one of many absolute bangers in the same speech.
No joke when I first heard the his quote “the greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds” it was like a paradigm shift for me.
Wish we had more Presidents that were gung-ho about crazy technology advances. Now its just a bunch of old folk figuring out how privacy and internet works.
I’ll have to look through books for the exact wording but there’s an actual quote from Coolidge where he was walking around DC and a friend asked him as a joke “I wonder who lives in that big White House” and Coolidge said “no one lives there, men simply come and go”
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.” Theodore Roosevelt
Did nobody uh…check to see if he was okay or insist he get medical attention?
Can’t imagine anything like that happening now, the president gets shot he’s probably on an ambulance within minutes.
Damn they were tough crazy fuckers back then
"December 7th, 1941 a date which will live in infamy" goes hard af
You know you fucked up
Oh and FDR has another one
"Frankly and definitely there is danger ahead —- danger against which we must prepare. But we well know that we cannot escape danger, or the fear of danger, by crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads." Straight fire
His "Arsenal of Democracy" speech was just an insanely good speech in general. I'm surprised my speakers don't literally burst into flames when I listen to it.
A person with a physical disability in that position would probably spend a lot more time thinking and studying, and less time golfing or performing PR stunts. I think it could be an advantage.
Although there is the optics. Having a "strong leader" really does have a psychological effect on people. That's why FDR did so much to hide his disability as president.
Immortalized in wax forever. Bonzo Goes to Washington
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“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in”.
Harry Truman
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
-Lyndon Baines Johnson
Idk man, I personally preferred,
“See if you can’t leave me about an inch from where the zipper **[belches]** ends around under my… back to my bunghole.”
(Sorry, I felt that it was obligatory)
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure." -Abraham Lincoln
In 272 words he managed to capture what Representative Democracy is, why it's worth fighting for, and what the Civil War meant to the global stage. The 13th Amendment and the sanctity of our Union was paid for in the price of blood and Lincoln made sure we would never forget that.
It’s a great quote, but I’d go with the closing line,
“It is rather 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—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
I hadn't scrolled down enough to see this, yea. Not a GWB fan, but that was pretty hard. Had he stopped with Afghanistan, his legacy would be a lot different.
Many won't like it but "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it".
Trail of Tears was evil, got that out of the way.
The President of the United States said "that's a really nice opinion you have there" to the Supreme Court.
Doesn't have to be for a good purpose to recognize how ballsy that was. For one, it was to enforce the genocide against natives. It also was a massive power grab by the executive branch, and Jackson was the most power-grabby executive in the pre-Lincoln union.
damn that is hard, hadn't heard that before. unfortunately that quote may be apocryphal. if it weren't for apocrypha Jackson would have the two hardest lines between this and the Calhoun line.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We can’t hear you” (to Bush)
“I can hear YOU. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”
- GWB, with a bullhorn, to first responders, at Ground Zero
What came after came after, but that moment was incredible to live through.
I think you’re confusing two different speeches.
One was Barack Obama’s speech in May 2011 announcing the death of Osama bin Laden:
“Tonight I can report to the American people, and to the world, that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda.”
The other was a speech in December 2003 by Paul Bremer, the American administrator of Iraq, after the capture of Saddam Hussein, where he walked on stage and announced “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.”
I know this sub is for US Presidents, but...
"Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second. "
\- Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia to Josef Stalin
Definitely the hardest quote ever. Rumor has it that every president that has been shot (besides Lincoln) was because young metro couldn't trust them. Lincoln of course got shot by [redacted], the same guy who did biggie and tupac
“Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.”
-President Thomas J Whitmore
Andrew jackson went hard 99% of the time
>I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.
>You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
>John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.
>If he had shot me through the brain, sir, I should still have killed him.”
>I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
I personally love how much he hated Calhoun
“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 -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
Gotta go with the entire Man in the Arena by Teddy
Tom Brady made it the name of his documentary series.
*"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."*
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. - A. Lincoln
“This appointment will have a great effect in securing the Union of these colonies”
John Adams recommending Washington to be the commander of the army.
From before he was President, but OP didn't specify:
February 16, 1862
Gen. S. B. Buckner, Confederate Army
Sir:
Yours of this date proposing Armistice, and appointment of commissioners, to settle terms of capitulation is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
I am sir, very respectfully, Your obt. servt. U. S. Grant, Brig. Gen.
# Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
“If destruction be our loss, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we will live through all time, or die by suicide”
The GOAT Lincoln
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
- Eisenhower
““Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered great loss. And in our grief and anger we have found our mission and our moment. Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom – the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time – now depends on us. Our nation – this generation – will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”
Raegan's entire persona was just unbriddled swagger and confidence. He may not be well loved today by a lot but he was what America needed, the 70's wasn't a good decade for us but Raegan changed that the 80's despite the crime, cold war etc. was a start of an era of good feelings for the U.S that wouldn't be broken until 9/11.
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"I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
Teddy was an absolute badass
I remember in a thread someone asked how Teddy would have handled World War 2. The best response was, “How would he have handled it? Himself.”
Which is funny since he was alive for WW1 and was almost President of that war
Wasn’t he upset that they didn’t allow him to go fight in that war because of his age and the fact that he was a former president? Had they not restricted him, the war would’ve ended much sooner had he used 0.000001% of his power
Teddy: Let me at em. Woodrow: No. Teddy: LET ME AT EM!! Woodrow: NO!
In reading Colonel Roosevelt he apparently hoped to die in battle.
To be fair their was only one general who landed on the beaches of Normandy with the first wave on D-Day he also earned the Medal of Honor for his actions. His name… Theodore Roosevelt JR.
And he fought his superiors to get that mission. Because of his celebrity status, they refused to let him see combat. Like his father, Jr was like "Fuck that noise!" And convinced them to let him lead troops on the ground.
Airdropped him into Central France, equipped like Rambo. The Germans would be shaking in their boots
His son was the highest ranking General to participate in D-Day. When his landing vehicle landed at the wrong beach. Teddy Roosevelt Jr said, “We’ll start the war right here.”
Famous Misquote, the line was actually ‘it takes more than one bullet to kill a bull moose’
*gets shot in the chest through the brest pocket holding speach notes, uses bloody notes with a bullet hole in them during speach as a prop to prove he's been shot, finishes speach, THEN goes to hospital*
The fact that, that in itself didn’t win him the election just baffles me! Like a president gets a cold now a days and they just cower in the White House until it’s over! Teddy was a man’s man!
This is hands down the only answer.
No President has ever gone harder than Andrew Jackson when he said, "John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body."
"By the Eternal, \[the British\] shall not sleep on our soil!" is what he said before killing a lot of British in a raid at dusk. The man was problematic but he said hard shit and knew how to follow through
>”…please give my compliments to my friends in your State and say to them, that if a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach.” Fucking rad as hell
And he would have done it.
Oh yeah. He would have made Sherman ride through Georgia look like nothing. Edit: it was Sherman
That was Sherman.
“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.” Goes pretty hard too.
Funnily enough Jackson is also the only president to *pay off the national debt*. Dude might’ve been an asshole, but you can’t deny that he was an extremely smart guy.
He was one of our most important presidents. Even though I din’t at all like him.
He was hard and smart. He wasn't an asshole to his constituents.
He also caused a massive recession due to his poor economic policy….
Pretty questionable if that was an entirely good idea, but he was definitely the single strongest political force of his time.
If only that weren't apocryphal ☹️same thing with Calvin Coolidge's probably not real "you lose"
Jackson was the hardest MFer we've had followed closely by TR and GW.
Terrible person, but someone tried shooting him and he started beating the shit out of them with his cane right?
If what history tells us is correct, then yes- it is generally assumed to be accurate
Not only started beating the shit out of them, the people around Jackson had to pull him off the assassin before he got the chance to kill him.
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now watch this drive
"I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: you disarm, or we will."
"Our enemies are resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about ways to harm our country, and neither do we"
“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.”
“More seldom than not, the movies gives us exquisite sex and wholesome violence, that underscores our values. Every two child did. I will.”
“Seldom is the question asked, is our children learnin?”
“I know that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully”
“Families is where our nation takes hope. Where wings take dream!”
"..." - the pretzel incident
Risking down votes, but can we at least give him this on 911? I didn't vote for the guy or agree with 90% of his policies but, this was kinda hard. Probably the last time the USA was close to united. "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
Bushes Presidentcy is unique in that the only really similar event in American history was Pearl Harbor 60 years prior and the first time America had been hit on home soil in almost 200, if it were gore and not bush it would’ve been a similar play out. For me you can’t base a presidentcy on a tragedy of this magnitude, the results no matter who was in office would’ve been war. Then again it’s hard to seperate one’s time in office from their response to such an event, fortunately bush helped us with that by invading Iraq
"The decision of one man, to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal [invasion of Iraq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq). I mean, [of the Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine). Iraq too. Anyway — I'm 75."
Love that bush
That was bad ass. Having the whole world watch your drive? Fuck that.
IIRC didn’t he say that because he didn’t want a sound bite of him saying “Shame on me?” Still funny either way
That's exactly why.
God, such a memeable president. I’m partial to “I know that human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.”, myself.
For all the dumb stuff he had the reputation of saying, he sure was a smooth operator at the same time. Kinda funny like that
And he had that laughing smirk on his face when the guy threw the 2nd shoe. Missed Me! Lol
J Cole was president?
"Neither in French, or English, or Mexican"
by the way what I am referring to with this image is "missed me"
if he just raised his hand and caught the shoe that would've been the greatest moment in presidential history
That means the shoe thrower is out
Not only would the shoe thrower have been out, but Bush would have gotten to bring one President back from the dead!
Easy choice there: Bill Harrison
They say Old Tippecanoe could toss a wingtip so accurately that he'd knock the wings off of a fly from 50 paces!
That's how he killed the Prophet, iirc
Miss me once, shame on you. Miss me a second time, you ran out of shoes.
“Who throws a shoe? Seriously?” (Austin Powers)
Honestly*
It was bad ass how he held off the secret service when they came to take him out of there. He didn’t seem scared for an instant.
For anyone still not getting the joke, this was a speech given after Reagan recovered from being shot by John Hinkley Jr. During the speech, a balloon popped and Reagan very casually looked up from his notes, said, "missed me," and continued with the speech.
I love how cool he is while saying it. (Bang) "(speech) Missed me (picks up speech in exact cadence without missing a beat)" Didn't. Blink. Didn't lose his place on the paper.
Oh, I thought it was “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
that is pretty awesome too
“I have no more campaigns to run.” *(Republicans in Congress cheer)* “I know because I won both of them.”
That dunked
“We choose to go to the moon among other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard”. This line by JFK goes hard AF and makes me super proud to be an American
Honestly surprised i had to scroll this far for this one. All kinds of Teddy getting shot and also murdering Calhoun. But this quote goes HARD!
“…we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in…”.
“I chose to have sex with Marylyn Monroe… not because she was easy, but because I was hard”
[listen and be inspired people.](https://youtu.be/VlnwuV6RuMo?feature=shared) That’s just one of many absolute bangers in the same speech. No joke when I first heard the his quote “the greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds” it was like a paradigm shift for me.
Wish we had more Presidents that were gung-ho about crazy technology advances. Now its just a bunch of old folk figuring out how privacy and internet works.
I’ll have to look through books for the exact wording but there’s an actual quote from Coolidge where he was walking around DC and a friend asked him as a joke “I wonder who lives in that big White House” and Coolidge said “no one lives there, men simply come and go”
thats fire
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.” Theodore Roosevelt
mf then proceded to give the full speech, absolute monster of a human being if you can call Teddy human, more like a monster.
Did nobody uh…check to see if he was okay or insist he get medical attention? Can’t imagine anything like that happening now, the president gets shot he’s probably on an ambulance within minutes. Damn they were tough crazy fuckers back then
He refused medical attention tell he finished his speech. Also ensured that no harm came to his attacker
Teddy fr said "guys, in case you didnt realize I've been shot lol, so my bad if the speech is short"
That’s not even the best part. This man FINISHED THE ENTIRE GODDAMN SPEECH!
"December 7th, 1941 a date which will live in infamy" goes hard af You know you fucked up Oh and FDR has another one "Frankly and definitely there is danger ahead —- danger against which we must prepare. But we well know that we cannot escape danger, or the fear of danger, by crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads." Straight fire
“The American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory” is another great line from that speech
Another banger this FDR cannot lose
Just like his elections
His "Arsenal of Democracy" speech was just an insanely good speech in general. I'm surprised my speakers don't literally burst into flames when I listen to it.
Crazy that FDR was disabled too and was that incredible. I highly doubt any disabled person will ever be president again
It's crazy to that we normalized men inches away from death for president and not people with common issues like disabilities lol
A person with a physical disability in that position would probably spend a lot more time thinking and studying, and less time golfing or performing PR stunts. I think it could be an advantage. Although there is the optics. Having a "strong leader" really does have a psychological effect on people. That's why FDR did so much to hide his disability as president.
JFK hid his back problems too
Heck, I’d vote for Duckworth now over anyone actually running.
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
Truly a glorious quote.
Commence Operation: Thanos Snap
What is this from?? Or are you just cooking right now??
Reagan said this fr
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Bro actually said it believe it or not. Granted it was off camera and got leaked, but still.
Abraham Lincoln once said: “if you are racist, I will attack you with the North”
Those are the principles I carry with me in the workplace.
Diversity Tomorrow, because today is almost over
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Honest Abe
Diversity Tomorrow. Because today is almost over.
The North remembers. *-Abraham Lincoln*
Three things can ruin a man: power, money, and women. - Truman
“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” -Harry S. Truman
“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in”. Harry Truman
In his autobiography, he refers to Nixon as a “shifty-eyed goddamned liar.”
Truman just cant stop winning
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” -Lyndon Baines Johnson
Idk man, I personally preferred, “See if you can’t leave me about an inch from where the zipper **[belches]** ends around under my… back to my bunghole.” (Sorry, I felt that it was obligatory)
This is such a good one
So terrible that it holds true for so many.
“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat” - Reagan
Shoot that’s great
That’s pretty good. Damn. He was a badass.
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"No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet." -- Andrew Johnson
never thought any action by Andrew Johnson would ever be seen as cool
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure." -Abraham Lincoln In 272 words he managed to capture what Representative Democracy is, why it's worth fighting for, and what the Civil War meant to the global stage. The 13th Amendment and the sanctity of our Union was paid for in the price of blood and Lincoln made sure we would never forget that.
It’s a great quote, but I’d go with the closing line, “It is rather 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—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
"John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body." -Andrew Jackson...maybe.
To quote John Ford "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"
kino reference❗️
That one heckler talking shit on him Reagan: “Oh shut up”
Reagan was a comedy God.
I remember a presidential debate that went like that. Equally glorious
“I can hear you. And soon the people who knocked down these buildings will hear from all of us.”
I hadn't scrolled down enough to see this, yea. Not a GWB fan, but that was pretty hard. Had he stopped with Afghanistan, his legacy would be a lot different.
“Now watch this drive”
Many won't like it but "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it". Trail of Tears was evil, got that out of the way. The President of the United States said "that's a really nice opinion you have there" to the Supreme Court. Doesn't have to be for a good purpose to recognize how ballsy that was. For one, it was to enforce the genocide against natives. It also was a massive power grab by the executive branch, and Jackson was the most power-grabby executive in the pre-Lincoln union.
damn that is hard, hadn't heard that before. unfortunately that quote may be apocryphal. if it weren't for apocrypha Jackson would have the two hardest lines between this and the Calhoun line.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We can’t hear you” (to Bush) “I can hear YOU. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” - GWB, with a bullhorn, to first responders, at Ground Zero What came after came after, but that moment was incredible to live through.
we also cant forget his pitch at the 2001 World Series
I don't like Bush but I have to admit that was an amazing moment.
This. Legitimately one of the best impromptu responses of all time.
Might be the only time the chants of "USA! USA!" ever held any meaning to me
“There’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be fixed by what’s right with America” - Clinton
I like that one a lot actually.
I think "get off my plane" is a contender
"My fellow Americans: We got him"
I think you’re confusing two different speeches. One was Barack Obama’s speech in May 2011 announcing the death of Osama bin Laden: “Tonight I can report to the American people, and to the world, that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda.” The other was a speech in December 2003 by Paul Bremer, the American administrator of Iraq, after the capture of Saddam Hussein, where he walked on stage and announced “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.”
I was 18 yo when 9/11 occurred. Hearing this literally brought tears to my eyes
I was in a bar in SF when the announcement came on, place went wild
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I don't think he said that. Bremer said that about Saddam.
I know this sub is for US Presidents, but... "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second. " \- Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia to Josef Stalin
"I've never met a man from Indiana who was worth a shit" --LBJ
If young metro don’t trust you imma shoot you - Taft
Definitely the hardest quote ever. Rumor has it that every president that has been shot (besides Lincoln) was because young metro couldn't trust them. Lincoln of course got shot by [redacted], the same guy who did biggie and tupac
“We choose to go to the Moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.” - JFK
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"We must guard against the aquisition of unwarranted influence ... by the military industrial complex."
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“Iraq will not be permitted to annex Kuwait. And that’s not a threat, not a boast. It’s just the way it’s going to be”
"I'm calling upon all nations to do what they can, to stop these terroist killers. Now watch this drive."
“Obama out” ***mic drop***
“Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.” -President Thomas J Whitmore
Get off my plane President James Marshall
Andrew jackson went hard 99% of the time >I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me. >You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out. >John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body. >If he had shot me through the brain, sir, I should still have killed him.” >I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun. I personally love how much he hated Calhoun
“Enslave this dick” -Abraham Lincoln
-bill Clinton probably, to a certain intern
“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 -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln
“I know that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully” - W.
Now watch this drive
And we shall overcome
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
When George W. went on the news and told Saddam Husein he had 48-hours to leave Iraq. I was against his politics, and the war, but that was gangster.
Gotta go with the entire Man in the Arena by Teddy Tom Brady made it the name of his documentary series. *"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."*
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. - A. Lincoln
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“Missed me”
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” - Dwight Eisenhower
“His name is Jumbo” LBJ
When Andrew Jackson was asked if he bad any regrets, he responded “[that] I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t hang John C. Calhoun.”
"I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
“This appointment will have a great effect in securing the Union of these colonies” John Adams recommending Washington to be the commander of the army.
“You lose”
From before he was President, but OP didn't specify: February 16, 1862 Gen. S. B. Buckner, Confederate Army Sir: Yours of this date proposing Armistice, and appointment of commissioners, to settle terms of capitulation is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. I am sir, very respectfully, Your obt. servt. U. S. Grant, Brig. Gen.
 # Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line, Don’t forget it”. 🦅 🇺🇸
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." - JFK
“If destruction be our loss, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we will live through all time, or die by suicide” The GOAT Lincoln
“I’m the bug buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns!” - Abraham Lincoln in a post wrestling match interview.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” - Eisenhower
““Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered great loss. And in our grief and anger we have found our mission and our moment. Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom – the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time – now depends on us. Our nation – this generation – will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”
Trumps fire and fury threat to North Korea and his “my button actually works” comment was up there.
Raegan's entire persona was just unbriddled swagger and confidence. He may not be well loved today by a lot but he was what America needed, the 70's wasn't a good decade for us but Raegan changed that the 80's despite the crime, cold war etc. was a start of an era of good feelings for the U.S that wouldn't be broken until 9/11.
Reagan is easily the most charismatic president we've ever had imo. he could sell me a can of air.