Rallying Cry Quotes

• Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

  James Madison

  Tyrants, Presidential, Liberty

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• Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Mean, Men, Mind

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• 'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

  Jon Corzine

  Believe, Speaks Out, Genocide

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• It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes, not least in the rallying cries that the winning campaigns used. They focused on a supposed economic threat posed by outsiders, as immigrants or as trade partners. This fuelling of anxieties underpinned a narrative centered on the need to "regain control," whether of borders or of economic forces.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Mistake, Winning, Anxiety

  Source: www.salon.com

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• That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Dirty, Responsibility

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• Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God.'

  Max Planck

  Fighting, Battle, Superstitions

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• I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was.

  Eliza Griswold

  Special, Patterns, West

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.

  Vince Vaughn

  Beautiful, Art, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.

  Monica Crowley

  Responsibility, Warrior, America

  "What The (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior's Guide To The Great American Comeback". Interview with Jamie Glazov, www.frontpagemag.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Drinking, Doors, Bed

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• The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, Germany, Way

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• Give us a man of God's own mould
  Born to marshall his fellow-men;
  One whose fame is not bought and sold
  At the stroke of a politician's pen.
  Give us the man of thousands ten,
  Fit to do as well as to plan;
  Give us a rallying-cry, and then
  Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Men, Giving, Fellow Man

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• If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  India, Century, Ends

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• No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

  Margaret Mitchell

  War, Fighting, Reality

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is formula for all winners.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspire, Winner, Texan

  "Rich Dad Poor Dad". Book by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter, 1997.

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• The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.

  Erick Erickson

  Media, Carbon Emissions, Accomplishment

  Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Guy, Trying, Kind

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• If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mother, Fall, Heart

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