Mount Rushmore Presidential Quotes
The postmaster of Keystone, South Dakota (the post office nearest to Mount Rushmore National Memorial) extended the kindness of applying an unrequested pictorial cancellation to these four covers. While I appreciate the gesture, I think the pictorials deface them more than augment them. In any case, each cover features a processed image of Mount Rushmore, a quote by each respective President, and uses the President's stamp from the 1986 Ameripex souvenir sheets and a 1991 "Flag over Mount Rushmore" coil stamp (Scott 2523) that I found in a discount postage lot.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism" — George Washington
"Only lay down true principles, and adhere to them inflexibly" — Thomas Jefferson
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I" — Theodore Roosevelt
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present" — Abraham Lincoln
