"If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth."

-- Chester A. Arthur

#Presidential Quotes

“I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.”
“Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.”
“Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “Vertigo”, p.80, New Directions Publishing
“I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.”
“The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.”

Source : "Danny Trejo: 'I went to the hole looking at three gas-chamber offences'". Interview with Lisa Marks, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.
“What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.218, Harvard University Press
“Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.”
“Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.”

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