Best Our Fathers Sayings

126 Our Fathers quotes by 105 unique authors

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive… — Max Weber
Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in… — William McKinley
Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It… — Henry Ward Beecher
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would… — John Ruskin
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that… — Charles Caleb Colton
The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an… — Stewart Udall
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in… — Edith Hamilton
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to… — Robert Ardrey
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are… — Thomas Jefferson
I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies… — Wovoka
FAITH Coming unto God, I believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him: I know that my… — Lancelot Andrewes
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers — Theodore Roosevelt
While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging… — Brigham Young
Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create… — Marcus Garvey
I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed, was put into… — Brigham Young
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every… — John Hancock
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our… — John Greenleaf Whittier
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the… — Julie Berry
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave… — Ellen Goodman
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that… — Abraham Lincoln

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