Samuel Francis Smith famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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From every mountain side, Let freedom ring....
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Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
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My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing . . . Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King.
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If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be "a little maid" to Xaaman the Syrian, for the honor of God's prophets, or a little child, for Christ's sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.
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From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.
-- Samuel Francis Smith
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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
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Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .
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