Founders Quotes - Page 16

• I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

  Samuel Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, God, Religious

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

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• The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

  John Dickinson

  Bible, God, Religious

  John Dickinson (1801). “The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: The speech of John Dickinson ... May 24th, 1764 ... praying the king for a change of the government of the province. 1764”, p.111

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• We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.

  George Washington

  Religious, Heart, Men

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.202

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• [N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.204

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• Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe, and all things contained in the heaven, the sea, and the earth, that they might be consecrated as God in opposition to God." All things, therefore, does human error worship, except the Founder of all himself. The images of those things are idols; the consecration of the images is idolatry.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Errors, Idols

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• But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly, men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Crazy, Men

  Interview with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. June 30, 2011.

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• A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Forget, Lost

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Names, Pyramids, History

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• We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

  George Washington

  Bible, God, Religious

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• We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

  Samuel Adams

  Bible, God, Patriotic

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• Don Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate from what the founder did 4. Be inflexible 5. Rely totally on research and experts 6. Concentrate on competitors instead of your customers 7. Put yourself - not the customer - first 8. Solve administrative concerns first 9. Let others do your thinking for example, headquarters 10. Rely on T-G-E: "That's Good Enough" and T-N-M-J: "That's Not My Job!" 11. Rationalize slow growth

  Donald Keough

  Jobs, Educational, Thinking

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• Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.

  Tim LaHaye

  Order, Followers, Sin

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• As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Way, Twenties

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• John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Years, Names, Facts

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it...especially in front of the kids.
  Perhaps the best Yuletide decorations are to be wreathed in smiles and wrapped in hugs.
  The miracle of Christmas is that a baby can be so decisive.
  It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Baby, Children

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• It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

  George Washington

  Bible, Thanksgiving, God

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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• Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.

  Tony Judt

  Home, Average, People

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin

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• They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Heart, Men, Rights

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.518, Best Books on

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• Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Mean, Science

  Horace Mann (1957). “The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men”

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• The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Government

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Smoking, Slavery, Conspiracy

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• At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them we put our liberties at risk. Our views are consistent because we believe in absolute truths and the essential soundness, even righteousness, of the Founder's vision of government.

  Sean Hannity

  Believe, Heart, Government

  Sean Hannity (2009). “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism”, p.14, Zondervan

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• I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Rome, World, Proud

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• The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

  James Joyce

  Writing, Effort, Risk

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