"The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth."

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Source : John Dickinson (1801). “The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: The speech of John Dickinson ... May 24th, 1764 ... praying the king for a change of the government of the province. 1764”, p.111

John Dickinson

#Bible Quotes #God Quotes #Religious Quotes

“Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?”
“I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness, and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.”

Source : "Stairways". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September, 2001.
“Beware of long arguments and long beards.”
“No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
“It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.”
“I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.”

Source : Quoted in Basil Davidson, Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society (1978)
“Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.”

Source : "Same-sex marriage debate: A model for other issues" by Mark Udall, www.politico.com.
“I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.”

Source : Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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