Andrew Jackson

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.”
― George Washington, The Complete Book of Presidential Inaugural Speeches: from George Washington to Barack Obama

“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”
― Ulysses S. Grant

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower