“It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”

Other quotes of interest”

John Quincy Adams –

“Posterity–you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”

Benjamin Franklin –

“They that would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Patrick Henry –

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

Thomas Jefferson –

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

George Washington –

“Government is not reason; it is not eloqence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

“The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”

Can apply to a broad spectrum of things.

First lady, close enough