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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of… — Norman Thomas
The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of… — T. B. Joshua
Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say about us anywhere… — David Ben-Gurion
So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That… — Al Sharpton
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with… — Joseph Addison
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. — Benjamin Disraeli
When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them… — Lee Greenwood
My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of… — Standing Bear
Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what… — Maximus the Confessor
The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing… — Henri Poincare
Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's… — George Hamilton
One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now. Those who have inherited… — Christian D. Larson
On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and… — Immanuel Velikovsky
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. — Will Rogers
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers… — Theodore Roosevelt
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the… — Theodore Roosevelt
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by… — John Quincy Adams
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. — Caleb Cushing
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of… — Matt Dillon
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. — Herbert Hoover
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to… — Malcolm X
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers. — Roh Moo-hyun
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers… — Francis Schaeffer

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