On the Fourth of July Americans acknowledge and celebrate the birth of this experimental nation in all sorts of ways. Oftentimes in Iowa, it takes the form of family picnics, colorful parades, and dazzling fireworks. So for added historical fun here are a few words to consider from our Presidents : some deep, some silly, some stupid, some futuristic, some contemplative, and some plain ole common sense. Reflect and remember!
[ July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.
John Adams.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
They misunderestimated me. George W. Bush
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge
Yes we can! Barack Obama
I am not a crook. Richard Nixon
She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son. Just kidding!!
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely. . .
Bill Clinton
The world is full of educated derelicts. Calvin Coolidge
. . . .reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles . . . George Washington
I know only two tunes: One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ and the other one isn’t. Ulysses S. Grant
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. Abraham Lincoln
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
ENJOY THE HOLIDAY!
Dianne Ross
Interior Designer/Phelan’s Interiors
363-9634
PS Guess who was born on the July 4th?
Calvin Coolidge, 1872
Guess who died?
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe
