Our Forefathers Quotes
57 quotes by 47 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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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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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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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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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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As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of…
— Barack Obama
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He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all... Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.
— Samuel Adams
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality…
— Francis Schaeffer
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A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we…
— David Ben-Gurion
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I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride…
— Augustus Washington
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Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing…
— Pope Leo I
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