Nathanael Greene Quotes

It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.

Nathanael Greene

• Country
• Freedom
• Slavery

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• Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • Food
  • Amazing

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Perfect

• I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Opportunity

• It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • Country
  • Together

• As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Country
  • Death
  • Know

• Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Morality

• If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • Want
  • Political

• Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.

  

  Marcus Garvey
  • Life
  • God
  • America

• Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able to reignite a whole entire new generation, not just inside the U.S. but across the globe, centering black people and centering the fight against white supremacy.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Work
  • Black

• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Good
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Integrity

• I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God
  • Important
  • Country

• Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Country
  • Purpose
  • Safety

• You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Country

• There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Heaven
  • Slavery

• The 'black rule' is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country's unemployment rate.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • Country
  • Black

• I respect and admire the Mormon faith. And I am eternally grateful that we live in a country where we have the freedom to worship as we choose.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Live
  • Country
  • Freedom

• My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

  

  Winfield Scott
  • Country
  • Kind
  • Government

• The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.

  

  Ezra Hall Gillett
  • Rest
  • Enjoyed
  • Churches

• One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Alone

• It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.

  

  Nathanael Greene
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Slavery