First Inaugural Address Quotes

#1. When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

David Horsey

#2. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]

Thomas Jefferson

#3. The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

Ronald Reagan

#4. Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

Tim Wise

#5. As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

Francois Hougaard

#6. There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.

Bill Nye

#7. It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. The wife, or bitter half.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

John Howe

#10. After a few more minutes of daydreaming about how fabulous I could become, I look down at the heading on my paper: Janey's Reinvention Plan. It appears lonely at the top of the page. I should probably add some bullets beneath, but I've never been much of a list maker.

J.C. Patrick

#11. Nowadays he is best remembered for the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 . . .), in which each successive number is the sum of the previous two, and the ratio between a number and its immediate antecedent tends towards a 'golden mean' (around 1.618). It

Niall Ferguson

#12. Nature has its own music, own song, if only we have time to listen and a heart to understand.

Debasish Mridha

#13. She is my hesitation when people ask me if I have a sister.

Kristina Haynes