Carol Shea-Porter for US Congress

Phone: (603) 531-9653 NH Congressional District #1

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

-- Harry S. Truman, 1947

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest...

-- John Adams, 1776

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else all go down, as one people.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1809

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

-- John F. Kennedy, 1961

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

-- John Adams, 1770

The...object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves."

-- Abraham Lincoln, 1854

Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.

-- George Washington, 1790