Bedrock Quotes

• If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

  William J. Brennan

  Government, Expression, Ideas

  "Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397". 1989.

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• The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Jobs, School

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• Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Government, Principles, Rehabilitation

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• I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Meaningful, Patriotic, Thinking

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.319, Pan Macmillan

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• Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Independence, Unalienable Rights

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• The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Men, Foundation

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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• What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

  Dani Shapiro

  Spiritual, Important, Essentials

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Pain, Believe

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• Discipline is the bedrock of character.

  Phil Pringle

  Character, Discipline

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• The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.

  Philip Kitcher

  Taken, Thinking, Wonder

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Parent

  Source: www.chicagonow.com

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• The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is made available to our people. In fact, free and candid discussion of vexing problems is the bedrock of democracy and it may be our surest safeguard for peace.

  Brien McMahon

  Government, People, Democracy

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• No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years ago-six hours, one Friday-Christ firmly planted in bedrock three solid anchor points that we can all cling to. For the heart scarred with futility, that Friday holds purpose. For the life blackened with failure, that Friday holds forgiveness. And for the soul looking into the tunnel of death, that Friday holds deliverance.

  Max Lucado

  Friday, Pain, Heart

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• The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn't a peripheral issue; it's foundational. It's bedrock. It's the bottom line.

  Greg Laurie

  Issues, Church, Events

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• What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Successful, Epidemics, People

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2000.

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• Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Running, Children

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• Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Should Have, Mind, Affair

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South”, p.18, Knopf

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• The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Able, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.

  William R. Ferris

  Country, Moon, Snacks

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• To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Mean, Self

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.166, Holt Paperbacks

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• Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

  Adam Bellow

  Social, Existence, Nepotism

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• Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.

  T. J. Clark

  Reality, Two, Wish

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• I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Believe, Different

  "The Fascinated God: What Science Says to Faith and Faith to Scientists". Book by Robert E. Zinser, 2003.

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• Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moral Behavior, Selfishness, Conflict

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Years, Profound, Watches

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