Treasury Of Presidential Quotations

Eye-opening statements of faith and conviction from eacy of America’s 42 Chief Executives, 1789-2006. Washington through Lincoln to Kennedy to the present. Beautifully arranged in chronological order, excerpts are footnoted to source documents, taken from Inaugural Addresses, Addresses to Congress, State of the Union Addresses, Executive Proclamations, Public Laws, Presidential Speeches & correspondence. A great gift idea for students, speakers, writers or the aspiring historian! Quotations range from Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, Indian Affairs, Military, National Crisis, National Holidays, to Religion, including acknowledgements by every US President of a Supreme Being in their addresses upon assuming office! “I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessities and comforts of life.”-Thomas Jefferson, 2nd Inaugural, March 4, 1805.