Establishment Quotes - Page 9

• The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the facts of history with the distorted version promoted by biased secular historians.

  Gary DeMar

  Christian, Religious, Children

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• Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, Matter

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• The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Expression

  David Barton (2013). “Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion”, p.24, BookBaby

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• I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.

  Bernadette Devlin

  School, Years, Thumbs

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• No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.

  David Hume

  Agreement, Perfect, Doubt

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.

  William Howard Taft

  Education, Teacher, School

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• ... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Allies, Wielding Power

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• The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Calm, Youth

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• Living in England has no such excuse:
  These are my customs and establishments.

  Philip Larkin

  Home, England, Excuse

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.

  William Anthony Donohue

  Christian, Religious, Ideas

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• Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they believe. The new state church has taken the form of the public school.

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

  Florynce Kennedy

  Doors, Unity, Movement

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• As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

  Horace Mann

  Christian, Wise, Gratitude

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• Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Nuclear, Flesh, Scientist

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• The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public; and they got rid of the delusions which had been spread by the Pope of Rome, and emancipated mankind from the spiritual tyranny they were under, and brought about the establishment of that religion which we now enjoy in this country.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Spiritual, Country, Eye

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• The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees.Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Peace, War, Government

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• Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Prayer, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.560, Library of America

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• I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Cal Thomas (1983). “Book burning”, Good News Pub

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• Those who are anti-God and anti-Christian in America have infiltrated the highest levels of the educational establishment. They have a philosophical commitment to eliminating any vestige of biblical Christianity from American thought and life. They are well-positioned, well-funded and well-connected. They are a very small minority in America, yet their level of commitment is rarely matched among Christians.

  Rick Scarborough

  Christian, Religious, Educational

  Rick Scarborough (2000). “Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement”

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• The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Tolerance

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• It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

  James Madison

  Education, Country, Class

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.

  James Madison

  Education, Men, Rights

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.

  Adi Shamir

  Community, Rebel, Want

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• Bonnie and Clyde, while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.

  Bryan Burrough

  White, Robins, Killers

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• I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

  Hugh Masekela

  Two, People, Majority

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