Petitions Quotes

• Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's right, even though I have little hope in it.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Hate, Mean, Champion

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.236, SUNY Press

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• The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.

  James Madison

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Common

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• I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

  Howard Rheingold

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

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• How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.

  William Cowper

  Prayer, Believe, Proof

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: The life of William Cowper. Letters, 1765-1783”

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• Petitions are ridiculous.

  Shane MacGowan

  Ridiculous

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• The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

  Caleb Cushing

  People, Constitution, Made

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• Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Government, Opposites

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• When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic.
  We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

  Oswald Chambers

  Sight, People, Mind

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.190, Discovery House

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• Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

  Phyllis McGinley

  Christmas, Dimes, Nickels

  Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press

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• My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them. Even if you have no money or time, per se, you can find ways to contribute on any level: sharing shelter animals on social media, donating old blankets or towels to a local shelter, starting a petition online for an animal cause.

  Alison Eastwood

  Animal, Media, Levels

  "Alison Eastwood: Growing up in Hollywood, keeping grounded, and helping animals in need". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Signatures, Forget, Online

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Secular Society, Law

  Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136

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• No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Poverty, Worship

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• He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, People, Water

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state.

  Newt Gingrich

  Moon, States, Living On

  "Gingrich Talks Up Plan to Put Colony on Moon" By Nick Kalman, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2012.

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• The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hands, Empty, Danger

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• What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it does some good.

  Edward Condon

  Hope, Science, Signatures

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• Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Prayer, Answers, Confession

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1834). “Works”, p.63

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• We now have over a hundred thousand people who are signed up on our campaign and our petition to open up the debate, and we're encouraging people to come and to join us and to insist that we need to be included.

  Jill Stein

  People, Needs, Campaigns

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.

  Alfred Nobel

  Life, Strong, Science

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  People, Path, Claims

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's the greater possibility we'll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.

  Bill McKibben

  People, Done, Mail

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Mind, Might

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• The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  Prayer, Done, Lord

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