"If my acceptance of the office of Governor……" — Christopher Gadsden
"If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it."
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11 Quotes by Christopher Gadsden
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I give no more paroles to British officers.
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I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another…
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The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities…
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My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that…
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No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then…
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What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.
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The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold…
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I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
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It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop…
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And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the…
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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