Background music: "Hail To The Chief"

Richard Q. Fowler, LOOK LIKE BEN

1. George Washington - "The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."

2. John Adams - "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."

3. Thomas Jefferson - "Homer tells us it was so 2600 years ago. ... that whatever... makes man a slave, takes half his worth away."

4. James Madison - "No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

5. James Monroe - "Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -- liberty!"

6. John Quincy Adams - "America, in the assembly of nations- has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights."

7. Andrew Jackson - "The right of resisting oppression is a natural right."

8. Martin van Buren - "No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."

9. William Henry Harrison - "I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free."

10. John Tyler - "The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights."

11. James K. Polk - "Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders; and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle in the world."

12. Zachary Taylor - "Tell him to go to hell." (1847) [Reply to Santa Anna's demand for surrender].

13. Millard Fillmore - "It is alleged that we have heretofore pursued a different course from a sense of our weakness, but that now our conscious strength dictates a change of policy, and that it is consequently our duty to mingle in these contests and aid those who are struggling for liberty."

14. Franklin Pierce - "The maintenance of large standing armies in our country would be not only dangerous, but unnecessary."

15. James Buchanan - "The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men."

16. Abraham Lincoln - "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

17. Andrew Johson - "Let peace and prosperity be restored to the land. May God bless this people: may God save the Constitution."

18. Ulysses S. Grant - *I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."

19. Rutherford B. Hayes - "He serves his party best who serves his country best."

20. James A. Garfield - "All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."

21. Chester A. Arthur - "Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remain unshaken."

22. Grover Cleveland - "The patriot must all ways be prepared to defend his country from his government."

23. Benjamin Harrison - "We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."

24. Grover Cleveland - (see number 22 above).

25. William McKinley - "Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people."

26. Theodore Roosevelt - "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."

27. William H. Taft - "Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race."

28. Woodrow Wilson - "The world must be made safe for democracy."

29. Warren G. Harding - "In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation."

30. Calvin Coolidge - "... [the Constitution]...no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity."

31. Herbert C. Hoover - "No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity and high purpose. "

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt - "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."

33. Harry S. Truman - "One of the chief virtues of a democracy is that its defects are always visible and .. can be pointed out and corrected."

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower - "America's leadership and prestige depend ... on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment."

35. John F. Kennedy - "And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

36. Lyndon B. Johnson - "As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?"

37. Richard M. Nixon - "As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquillity to earth."

38. Gerald Ford - "Our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a Government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule."

39. Jimmy Carter "America did not invent human rights.... human rights invented America."

40. Ronald Reagan - "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

41. George Bush - "We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right."

42. Bill Clinton - "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

43. George W. Bush - Second Inaugural Address: "All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you."

ALL MEN, EVERYWHERE, SHOULD BE FREE.