Best Our Forefathers Quotes
57 Our Forefathers quotes by 46 unique authors
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I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally…
— Robert E. Lee
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The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our…
— Ronald Reagan
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When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before His face, before…
— John of Kronstadt
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Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and…
— Robert H. Jackson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
— Herbert Hoover
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Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
— Roh Moo-hyun
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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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Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a…
— Luke Scott
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States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights…
— Robert Kennedy
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A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our…
— Herbert Hoover
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To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the…
— James E. Faust
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
— Yahya Jammeh
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Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the…
— Luke Scott
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All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and…
— Lynn Margulis
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