[Vision2020] Famous Speeches

[Joe Campbell]

Among the numerous quotes listed below is this one:

Franklin Roosevelt, Declaration of War to Japan, Dec. 8, 1941
I ask that the Congress declare that since the 
unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on 
Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has 
existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.

What does this have to do with divine intervention? In fact, what do most of
the quotes below have to do with divine intervention? I haven't read them all
but none of the ones that I read are like the Palin quote. Many of them
merely mention the word "God." Maybe you could sift through the lot and find
one or two that will support your point.

--
Joe Campbell

---- Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote: 

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Those who have criticized Gov. Sarah Palin for 
her remarks on divine intervention might do well 
to review this sampling of quotations from some 
of the world's greatest leaders.

Enjoy.

All quotations, except for the quotes from the 
Declaration of Independence, are taken from the 
website: http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/

Winston Churchill, The Retreat from Flanders Speech, June 4th, 1940
We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the 
end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and 
oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence 
and growing strength in the air. We shall defend 
our island whatever the cost may be; we shall 
fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in 
streets and on the hills. We shall never 
surrender and even if, which I do not for the 
moment believe, this island or a large part of it 
were subjugated and starving, then our empire 
beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British 
Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's 
good time the New World with all its power and 
might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.
Franklin Roosevelt, Declaration of War to Japan, Dec. 8, 1941
I ask that the Congress declare that since the 
unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on 
Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has 
existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
General George S. Patton, The Final Pep-Talk , May 17th, 1944
There's one great thing you men can say when it's 
all over and you're home once more. You can thank 
God that twenty years from now, when you're 
sitting around the fireside with your grandson on 
your knee and he asks you what you did in the 
war, you won't have to shift him to the other 
knee, cough, and say, "I shovelled shit in Louisiana."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, The D-Day Order Speech, June 6th, 1944
The tide has turned.
The free men of the world are marching together 
to victory. I have full confidence in your 
courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle.
We will accept nothing less than full victory.
Good luck, and let us all beseech the blessings 
of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Birth of a New Nation, April 7th, 1957

Moses might not get to see Canaan, but his 
children will see it. He even got to the 
mountaintop enough to see it and that assured him 
that it was coming. But the beauty of the thing 
is that there’s always a Joshua to take up his 
work and take the children on in. And it’s there 
waiting with its milk and honey, and with all of 
the bountiful beauty that God has in store for 
His children. Oh, what exceedingly marvellous 
things God has in store for us. Grant that we 
will follow Him enough to gain them.
O God, our gracious Heavenly Father, help us to 
see the insights that come from this new nation. 
Help us to follow Thee and all of Thy creative 
works in this world, and that somehow we will 
discover that we are made to live together as 
brothers And that it will come in this 
generation: the day when all men will recognize 
the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Amen.
Pres. John F. Kennedy, Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Jan. 1, 1961
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or 
citizens of the world, ask of us the same high 
standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask 
of you. With a good conscience our only sure 
reward, with history the final judge of our 
deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, 
asking His blessing and His help, but knowing 
that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
Pres. John F. Kennedy, We Choose to go to the Moon, Sept. 12, 1962
Well, space is there, and we're going to climb 
it, and the moon and the planets are there, and 
new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, 
therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing 
on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest 
adventure on which man has ever embarked.
President John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 22, 1962
Our goal is not the victory of might, but the 
vindication of right-not peace at the expense of 
freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this 
hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God 
willing, that goal will be achieved.

Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, Aug. 28th, 1963
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring 
from every village and every hamlet, from every 
state and every city, we will be able to speed up 
that day when all of God's children, black men 
and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and 
Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in 
the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at 
last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10th, 1964
You honour the ground crew without whose labour 
and sacrifices the jet flights to freedom could 
never have left the earth. Most of these people 
will never make the headlines and their names 
will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have 
rolled past and when the blazing light of truth 
is focused on this marvellous age in which we 
live, men and women will know and children will 
be taught that we have a finer land, a better 
people, a more noble civilization, because these 
humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.
Pres. Lyndon B Johnson, We Shall Overcome, March 15th, 1965
Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United 
States it says-in Latin - "God has favoured our 
undertaking." God will not favour everything that 
we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will. 
But I cannot help bee believing that He truly 
understands and that He really favours the 
undertaking that we begin here tonight.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Time to Break Silence, August 28th, 1963
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves 
to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle 
for a new world. This is the calling of the sons 
of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response.
Martin Luther King, Jr. , I See the Promised Land,  April 3rd, 1968
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've 
got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't 
matter with me now. Because I've been to the 
mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I 
would like to live a long life. Longevity has its 
place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I 
just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me 
to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. 
And I've seen the promised land. I may not get 
there with you. But I want you to know tonight, 
that we, as a people will get to the promised 
land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried 
about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine 
eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

Robert F. Kennedy, Death of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4th, 1968
My favourite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "In 
our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by 
drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, 
against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
Pres. Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address,  Jan. 20th, 1981

It does require, however, our best effort and our 
willingness to believe in ourselves and to 
believe in our capacity to perform great deeds, 
and to believe that together with God's help, we 
can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.
And after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans.
God bless you and thank you.
Pres. Ronald Reagan, Address to the British Parliament, June 8th, 1982
The British people know that, given strong 
leadership, time and a little bit of hope, the 
forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over 
evil. Here among you is the cradle of 
self-government, the Mother of Parliaments. Here 
is the enduring greatness of the British 
contribution to mankind, the great civilized 
ideas: individual liberty, representative 
government, and the rule of law under God.
Pres. Bill Clinton, I Have Sinned, Sept. 11, 1998

But I believe that to be forgiven, more than 
sorrow is required - at least two more things. 
First, genuine repentance - a determination to 
change and to repair breaches of my own making. I 
have repented. Second, what my bible calls a 
''broken spirit''; an understanding that I must 
have God's help to be the person that I want to 
be; a willingness to give the very forgiveness I 
seek; a renunciation of the pride and the anger 
which cloud judgment, lead people to excuse and 
compare and to blame and complain.
Pres. Bill Clinton, I Have Sinned, Sept. 11, 1998
I thank my friend for that. I thank you for being 
here. I ask you to share my prayer that God will 
search me and know my heart, try me and know my 
anxious thoughts, see if there is any hurtfulness 
in me, and lead me toward the life everlasting. I 
ask that God give me a clean heart, let me walk by faith and not sight.
I ask once again to be able to love my neighbour 
- all my neighbours - as my self, to be an 
instrument of God's peace; to let the words of my 
mouth and the meditations of my heart and, in the 
end, the work of my hands, be pleasing. This is 
what I wanted to say to you today.
Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all 
men are created equal, that they are endowed by 
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, 
that among these are Life, Liberty and the 
pursuit of Happiness. ­ That to secure these 
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, 
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
and
And for the support of this Declaration, with a 
firm reliance on the protection of Divine 
Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our 
Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.