Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skin, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions–bound together by a single unity–the unity of freedom and equality.
There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Every couple of months or so different snapshots about the Buckeye State of Ohio will be featured.
Just like the place where you live, Ohio is loaded with facts which very people may actually know. Being relatively new to Ohio (arriving here about 13 years ago), I am still searching and discovering more.
Ohio is sometimes referred to as the “Buckeye” state. But, how many people really know what a Buckeye is? The Buckeye tree is found throughout the state, and its nut is also called a Buckeye. While the trees are found in other Midwestern locations, only Ohio has adopted it.
Besides being a nickname for the state, Buckeyes is also used as the name for The Ohio State University’s athletic teams. To be honest, it seems a bit strange to use the name of a “worthless nut” for a college sports team name.
Ohio was granted statehood in 1803 while Thomas Jefferson was President. However, does anyone know the rest of the story? When the American Congress approved statehood for Ohio, they forgot one significant step. Ohio’s state constitution was not ratified by the federal government. This error was overlooked until 1953 when President Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation approved by Congress to rectify this oversight.
Ohio is home to eight of America’s Presidents. Any Americans who can name them all should be applying for a spot on the game show “Jeopardy.” With the exception of William Henry Harrison, all were born in Ohio. Harrison was born in Virginia, but lived in Ohio when he was elected President.
The remaining Presidents include: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, and Warren G. Harding. There has not been a President from Ohio since Harding (elected in 1920). Seeing that Harding has been ranked as one of the most inefficient Presidents in history, one might understand why Ohio has been on the Presidential sidelines ever since.
Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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