10 Frases de Abraham Lincoln
01- America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
02- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
03- Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
04- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
05- 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.
06- We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
07- You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
08- In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
09- 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.
10- All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
10 Frases de John F. Kennedy
01- Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
02- Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
03- My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
04- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
05- Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
06- As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
07- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
08- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
09- Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
10- When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
10 Frases de Barack Obama
01- 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.
02- Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
03- We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
04- I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
05- If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
06- I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
07- The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
08- The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
09- And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
10- America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
