Presidents Day 2010

So if you were asked you to write down the names of the first ten Presidents of the United States of America how many would you know? This day in the United States we are to honor and remember the 44 men who have held the highest office in our nation to date. For some citizens it is just another day off from work or school and for most it is another day at work and possibly a good sale at a local retailer. Not much of a memory or honor for these men who helped lead our nation through its early years.

George Washington (1789-1797)

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

John Adams (1797-1801)

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"

James Madison (1809-1817)

"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."

James Monroe (1817-1825)

"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."

John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)

"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."

Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)

"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."

William Henry Harrison (1841)

"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."

John Tyler (1841-1845)

"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."