Assuming Quote by William Samuel Johnson

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the…

— James K. Polk

When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception…

— George Washington

The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be…

— George Washington

“By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same…

— Edmund Burke

“It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.…

— Andrew Jackson

“My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught…

— Agatha Christie

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do you imagine that I repine at Providence, or curse my creation, because I go out of life, and put a period to a…

— David Hume

“The increased facilities of communication and exchange of thought, the teachings of history, the unity of government, the rise of literature and the efforts…

— Rabindranath Tagore

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen…

— J. Reuben Clark

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the…

— Thornton Wilder

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the…

— Tryon Edwards