Monday, February 15, 2016

President's day

Dear family:

Hope you all had a wonderful Valentines Day and for those in the US, we hope you are now enjoying a fabulous holiday weekend!

Over the past few weeks Daniel and I have been watching those very entertaining Presidential debates and how desperate they all seemed to be by attacking each other.  We both look at each other in amazement to think one of them will become the next President. It’s a little scary!  

 To commemorate this day Feb. 15th 2016 which also happens to be my mom’s birthday, I will post some quotes from former Presidents as if my own mother was saying them; quotes with substance and wisdom.

“ We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.” Jimmy Carter

“ I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world” George Washington.

“ Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first..” Ronald Reagan

“ History in general, only informs us what bad government is.” Thomas Jefferson

“ Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to ach starts with education.” George H. W. Bush

“ Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” Dwight D Eisenhower

“ Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” Herbert Hoover

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I leave you hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosom until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created equal.” Abraham Lincoln

“ It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” Harry Truman

“ I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.” Abraham Lincoln

“ As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.” John F. Kennedy

“ Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.” Theodore Roosevelt

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson

Those were the good old days when Presidents were people you looked up to as good role models. We can only hope right?

Con amor,
Vero



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