Forefathers Quotes
96 quotes by 85 authors
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
— Samuel Butler
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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that…
— Tori Amos
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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's…
— Dennis Miller
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We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the…
— Edward George, Baron George
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If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry…
— Ben Crenshaw
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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.…
— Samuel Adams
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
— Fletcher Knebel
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I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
— Alan Bennett
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The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in…
— H. L. Mencken
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In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we…
— Chuck Baldwin
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If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing…
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among…
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the…
— Ronald Reagan
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If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be…
— Calvin Coolidge
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I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents…
— Carl Jung
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