Happy President’s Day!
Here are some not so famous quotes from each of the Presidents on our money.
$1 Bill/Quarter
George Washington -1st President
“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
$2 Bill/Nickel
Thomas Jefferson- Third President
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.”
$5 Bill/Penny
Abraham Lincoln – 16th President
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
$20 Bill
Andrew Jackson -7th President
“As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. “
Franklin Rooselvelt –dime – 32nd President
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
John Kennedy Half Dollar 35th President
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
Dwight Eisenhower – Silver Dollar 34th President
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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