You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke. — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District,… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Worse than useless, I worry e-petitions are detrimental, with their sense of catharsis and mini-activism. Channelling away agitation, giving us the opportunity… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The problems of our day loom ominously before us... Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty… — Wiley Blount Rutledge Copy Share Image
The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Supreme Court really takes cases with kind of a theme in mind. They get about 10,000 requests… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide… Yes, 86… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image