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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

Inspirational, Life, Country

Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Unknown

Bible, God, Education

Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

John Adams

Bible, God, Religious

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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, God

Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

John Adams

Bible, God, Religious

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From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

William Holmes McGuffey

Apology, Sacred Scripture, Source

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It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

George Washington

Thanksgiving, Presidential, Duty To God

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

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We are the ones we've been waiting for.

June Jordan

Change, Life Changing, Yes We Can

June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

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...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.

John Hancock

Bible, God, Religious

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I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

Theodore Roosevelt

Bible, God, Christian

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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Abraham Lincoln

Strength, Wise, Strong

Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Penguin

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July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

John Adams

4th Of July, Declaration Of Independence, Deliverance

Letter to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776

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My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

Thomas Jefferson

God, Patriotic, Heart

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Whether or not you agree with Bernie Sanders' version of socialism, it is enormously significant that, for the first time in US history, a presidential candidates who calls himself a socialist has had an actual shot at winning the presidential election. And to his credit, he has not backed down from the label.

Kshama Sawant

Winning, Presidential, Labels

Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.

Bill McKibben

Russia, Texas, Years

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But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

Tom Hanks

Birthday, Thinking, Years

"Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

Arundhati Roy

Past, Done, Destroying

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In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

Peter Drucker

Hero, Pay, Next

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In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history in the last 30 years have all been centred around the climate.

Bill McKibben

Years, Lasts, Climate

Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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