First Inaugural Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings.

Jay London

#4. Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.

George Barna

#5. Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.

Warsan Shire

#6. Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Congratulations to the new Wayne State men and women's rugby team for winning their inaugural victories on their very first weekend. I am sure there will plenty more victories for the "Children of the Corn", in the games to come.

Brian Vizard

#8. Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

Ryan McGinley

#9. Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. Theo's moods are something much more complex than simply unpredictable.

Jewel E. Ann

#11. I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.

Joe Green

#12. Is it truly worth saving your life if you lose your soul in the process?

Aprilynne Pike

#13. I've unsheathed my claws too many times. I want to save lives, not destroy them.

Erin Hunter

#14. I became a country music fan in 1990 when I moved to Colorado. It was my first exposure to it because I'm from a city. I've been a fan of country music ever since.

Ricky Schroder

#15. We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#16. I wanted to escape, and to become the center of a universe of my own creation, instead of remaining on the margins or even becoming part of other people's universe.

Rhonda K. Garelick

#17. I realize that it isn't very fashionable to talk about some things being holy; nevertheless, if we ever want to rid ourselves of personal and corporate emptiness, brokenness, loneliness, and fear, we have to allow ourselves room for that which we can not see, hear, touch , or control.

Fred Rogers

#18. We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be.

Mira Grant

#19. The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything that had happened.

Lemony Snicket