Quotes About Presidents Day

#1. Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.

Lyn Nofziger

#2. There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.

Rush Limbaugh

#3. Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos?

Ben Shapiro

#4. Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.

Nigel Hamilton

#5. Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage

Anna Kendrick

#6. There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.

Monica Lewinsky

#7. Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.

James Dobson

#8. America is best described by one word, freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#9. There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents. Especially in this day and age where you leave office in your 50s and you can live another 40 years, easily. That's a lot of time.

David Mandel

#10. Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Nicolas Poussin

#11. A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!

James Oppenheim

#12. I am an artist, not a dressmaker.

Paul Poiret

#13. One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

John Piper

#14. Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#15. Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#16. God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

Joshua Harris

#17. For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. I know what it means to miss you,

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#19. When humankind possesses enormous new powers, and when the threat of famine, plague and war is finally lifted, what will we do with ourselves? What will the scientists, investors, bankers and presidents do all day? Write poetry? Success

Yuval Noah Harari

#20. I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.

Lupe Fiasco

#21. Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

Samantha Bee

#22. With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

Marcello Mastroianni

#23. We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Greenberg

#24. No one who will not sleep can ever wake.

George MacDonald

#25. Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.

Mark McKinnon

#26. I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You may hate, but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever.

Mary Shelley

#27. The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

Rich Mullins

#28. Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.

Swami Satchidananda

#29. In the tabernacle of grace, all your obstacles will be tackled. Wake up to see it happen live. You are victorious in all things!

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.

James Dillet Freeman

#31. In my heart, I love books, I love writing. I love the lines of letters on a page.

Jaclyn Dolamore

#32. There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day,

Matt Drudge

#33. I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

Dick Cheney

#34. Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

Jay Leno

#35. As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

Lauren Graham