Voting is a civic sacrament.
Theodore Hesburgh
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Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
CHRISTINE PELOSI I've been following the issues really closely, and I just think that voting is not only a civic righ...
JOSH MASON Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
THEODORE HESBURGH The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate c...
THEODORE HESBURGH The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trum...
THEODORE HESBURGH The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
THEODORE HESBURGH The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
THEODORE HESBURGH It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
THEODORE HESBURGH I have a lot to be humble about, ... I'd like to say that it's the happiest day of my life, but it i...
THEODORE HESBURGH I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many o...
THEODORE HESBURGH It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $30...
THEODORE HESBURGH All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
THEODORE HESBURGH It's like having a cobra in the nursery with your grandchildren. You get rid of the cobra or you won...
THEODORE HESBURGH My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them becau...
THEODORE HESBURGH The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at ...
THEODORE HESBURGH The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elect...
GEORGE CARLIN The Coverdell Institute is lodged in academic affairs and we serve to promote civic engagement and h...
GREGG KAUFMAN U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who...
ZIG ZIGLAR Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as...
MICHAEL HORTON The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
THEODORE M. HESBURGH It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
THEODORE M. HESBURGH Civic duty? Perhaps it would be a little naive to try to coerce me into voting. I assure you my basi...
CRISS JAMI Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal electio...
LORETTA LYNCH A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.
MOTHER ANGELICA Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
PROVERB Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
FRENCH PROVERB Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW I feel like a Bull Moose.
- Theodore Roosevelt,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Man is by nature a civic animal.
ARISTOTLE A woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for Christmas.
ALICE GLYNN God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
SAMUEL BUTLER You have these periods when there's a major civic crisis that redefines civic life,
WILLIAM STRAUSS Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAK The real presence of Christ's most precious Body and Blood is not to be sought for in the Sacrament,...
RICHARD HOOKER The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.
MONICA BALDWIN I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal enti...
BILL FRIST Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Teddy Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his successor, and when Teddy Roosevelt tells you to do somet...
DANIEL O'BRIEN Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that we do not me...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
GLORIA STEINEM If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament
ROSE F. KENNEDY If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
FLORYNCE KENNEDY The names of our civic places reflect our values and our aspirations, ... It's wrong to sever the li...
GARY RUSKIN He is a non-voting member.
BRIAN HAMMONS I have a good record against [Theodore], but we'll see how it goes.
HENRIK LUNDQVIST It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not po...
SAINT AUGUSTINE You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, 'Well done.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.
KEITH ELLISON For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the int...
HILLARY CLINTON Cynical? Me? I'll have you know that I make daisy-chains and frolic with unicorns on the weekends.
BEX-CHAN Well, spank my arse and call me Morgana.
BEX-CHAN Books are the ammunition of life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the p...
EDMUND MORRIS That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess....
DIANA GABALDON It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
BRUCE SCHNEIER In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.
GEOFF DYER In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgive...
BILL MOYERS Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
C.S. LEWIS Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS Theodore Roosevelt said Do what you can, with what you have, right where you
are. This is great advi...
BRIAN TRACY When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy s...
DEFOREST SOARIES Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficaci...
SAMUEL BUTLER Voting is an individual, personal thing.
HILL HARPER Nasdaq is voting with their capital.
JAMES CONNOLLY Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
KRIST NOVOSELIC Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
COKIE ROBERTS We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.
DONNA BRAZILE It is very much like voting at a precinct polling place.
DARLENE RICKMAN Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious...
JOHANNES TAULER There should be in the life of every married couple a continual building of the sacrament.
MOTHER ANGELICA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Our mission is just two things, to restore hope and teach civic responsibility.
MALIK RAHIM In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality som...
JOHN E. HINES Voting is a right, but it's also a responsibility. The state of Louisiana spent over $2.5 million tr...
JENNIFER MARUSAK Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER I happened to see a bit of the trend on voting and it showed we have a well-informed voting academy.
MARK POPE I'm voting my conscience on November 2; I'm voting for John Kerry.
WINONA LADUKE Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks
SOROOSH SHAHRIVAR Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there th...
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
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THEODORE WHITE In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on ...
THEODORE FORSTMANN The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
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THEODORE MUNGERS All the resources we need are in the mind
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
THEODORE PARKER The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
THEODORE ROETHKE CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.
THEODORE LEVITT Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college ...
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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THEODORE ZELDIN Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is better to be faithful than famous.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am among those Americans whose ancestors include men and women from many different European countr...
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
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THEODORE PARKER Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always f...
THEODORE REIK Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upho...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A mind too active is no mind at all.
THEODORE ROETHKE If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the Preside...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
THEODORE PARKER Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed howeve...
THEODORE PARKER Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral...
THEODORE WHITE Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and ackn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing e...
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