Best Our Fathers Sayings
126 Our Fathers quotes by 105 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers
— Theodore Roosevelt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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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
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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.
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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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