Upon Quotes
10257 quotes by 4366 authors
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Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life…
— Jane Smiley
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Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name…
— Noah Webster
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May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while…
— George Washington
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I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that they could not…
— Ronald Reagan
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Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that…
— Brian Tracy
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No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be…
— George Washington
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For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.
— John Winthrop
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Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may…
— Samuel Adams
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I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay…
— Thomas Paine
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I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a…
— George Washington
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The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
— George Washington
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Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United…
— Alexander Hamilton
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;…
— Joseph Story
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May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and…
— George Washington
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Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.
— William Blackstone
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As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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