"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution."

-- John F. Kennedy

#4th Of July Quotes #Heirs Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.”
“Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.”
“American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.156, Simon and Schuster
“The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.”
“The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees. He said, 'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.' Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail.”
“Instead of taking care to acquaint ourselves with others, we only think of making ourselves known to them. It would be better to listen to other people in order to become enlightened rather than to speak so as to shine in front of them.”
“Do you recall Fred Merriville?â€ She stared at him. â€œFred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?â€ â€œThe poor fellow has nothing to say: heâ€™s dead, alas!”
“I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'”

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