Heritage Quotes - Page 13

• Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheism, Christianity, Intolerance

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• Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world and Communism, the temptation to imitate totalitarian security methods must be resisted day by day... When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

  Earl Warren

  Wisdom, Struggle, Rights

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• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Life Changing, Different, Language

  "Exclusive Interview With Yo Yo Ma on the Spirituality of Music". Interview with Laurence Vittes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2012.

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• Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

  Karl Marx

  Nations

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• May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.

  Harry S. Truman

  May, Glorious

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Hillary Clinton was actually inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame yesterday. Hillary said she's very proud of her Irish heritage or her Italian heritage or her Asian heritage. Whatever it takes to seal the deal with you guys. I've got to get into that Oval Office.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Italian, Yesterday, Office

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• What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Sacrifice, Two, India

  Speech delivered at Gurkula Visvavidyalaya Convocation on 25th April 1943, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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• The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.

  Ilana Mercer

  Children, Ignorance, Form

  "A Burning Dilemma Among America's Dhimma". American Daily Herald (americandailyherald.com), May 10, 2013.

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• The fact that previous generations have handed down to us a substantial public heritage by way of roads, port, etc. almost completely free of debt, seems to me to impose some limitation on the validity of the theory that by borrowing we should, or could, pass on the burden of development to the next generation.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Way, Next, Etc

  "Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council", (p. 131), March 30, 1962.

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• I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'

  Paul Engle

  Home, Holiday, Horizon

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• There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves conservatives, like the Heritage Foundation or Gingrich, are believers in -- are radical statists. They believe in a powerful state, but a welfare state for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Believe, People

  "On US Military Budgets". Interviewed with Ira Shorr, chomsky.info. February 11, 1996.

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• Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny.

  Daniel Goleman

  Destiny, Emotional, Brain

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.27, Bantam

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• Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• You will be what you are, and whatever it is, you will be fine. Everyone has to accept that and love you for who you are; it doesn’t really matter where your heritage comes from

  C.C. Hunter

  Love You, And Love, Matter

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• Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans, the lifesaving work of our scientists and physicians, and generosity of countless individuals who voluntarily give of their time, talents, and energy to help others-all have enriched humankind and affirmed the importance of our Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping our government and values.

  George H. W. Bush

  Christian, Freedom, Sacrifice

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• While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. … I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Past, People, Wish

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• In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Average, America, Long

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen to Steve Earle, Mary J. Blige, and k.d. lang. We devour paperback novels and tell evil mean stories, value stubbornness above patience and a sense of humor more than a college education. We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained. And let me promise you, you do not want to make us angry.

  Dorothy Allison

  Appreciation, Children, Mean

  Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.14, Penguin

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• Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

  Bryan Caplan

  College, Anarchy, Anarchism

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• The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.

  Dick Cheney

  Understanding, Important, Made

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• Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

  Tony Abbott

  Country, People, Celebrate

  "Program "Tony Abbott on Q and A" Transcript". www.abc.net.au. April 05, 2010.

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• Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

  George Washington

  Religious, Godly, Indulge In

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.9

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• We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future.

  June Jordan

  Black, Needs, Superstar

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.

  Harry Reid

  Republican, Hispanic, Know How

  "CNN's Sanchez: Reid's Racist Gaffe Emblematic of Angle's Incompetence". "Rick's List" with Rick Sanchez, www.newsbusters.org. August 11, 2010.

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• Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

  Albert Pike

  Mistake, Ignorance, Humility

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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