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Ooops - I grabbed an incomplete phrase for the Roosevelt speech. My
bad - sorry for that.<br><br>
Special note for Joe Campbell - sorry, you will have to do your own
editing.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Enjoy.<br><br>
All quotations, except for the quotes from the Declaration of
Independence, are taken from the website:
<a href="http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/<br><br>
</a>Winston Churchill, The Retreat from Flanders Speech, June 4th, 1940
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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.</b> </font>
</dl>Franklin Roosevelt, Declaration of War to Japan, Dec. 8, 1941
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>With
confidence in our armed forces, with the un-bounding determination of our
people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God.</b></font>
</dl>General George S. Patton, The Final Pep-Talk , May 17th, 1944
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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."</b></font>
</dl><font color="#333333">General Dwight D. Eisenhower, The D-Day Order
Speech, June 6th, 1944</font>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>The tide has
turned.
<dd>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.
<dd>We will accept nothing less than full victory.
<dd>Good luck, and let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon
this great and noble undertaking.</b> </font>
</dl>Martin Luther King, Jr., The Birth of a New Nation, April 7th,
1957<br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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.
<dd>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.</b> </font>
</dl>Pres. John F. Kennedy, Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You,
Jan. 1, 1961
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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.</b></font>
</dl><font color="#333333">Pres. John F. Kennedy, We Choose to go to the
Moon, Sept. 12, 1962</font>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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.</b> </font>
</dl>President John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 22, 1962
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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.</b> <br><br></font>
</dl>Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, Aug. 28th, 1963
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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!"</b> </font>
</dl>Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10th,
1964
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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.</b> </font>
</dl>Pres. Lyndon B Johnson, We Shall Overcome, March 15th, 1965
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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.</b> </font>
</dl>Martin Luther King, Jr. Time to Break Silence, August 28th, 1963
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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. </b></font>
</dl>Martin Luther King, Jr. , I See the Promised Land, April 3rd,
1968
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>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.</b>
<br><br></font>
</dl>Robert F. Kennedy, Death of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4th, 1968
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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."</b></font>
</dl>Pres. Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, Jan. 20th,
1981<br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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.
<dd>And after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans.
<dd>God bless you and thank you.</b></font>
</dl><font color="#333333">Pres. Ronald Reagan, Address to the British
Parliament, June 8th, 1982</font>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#333333"><b>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.</b> </font>
</dl>Pres. Bill Clinton, I Have Sinned, Sept. 11, 1998<br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>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.</b></font>
</dl>Pres. Bill Clinton, I Have Sinned, Sept. 11, 1998
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>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.
<dd>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.</font>
</dl>Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776<br><br></b>
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<dd>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,
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<dd>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.
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