Manifest Destiny Quotes

• What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.

  Joel Osteen

  Destiny, Almighty, Fulfilling

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

  Winston Churchill

  Destiny, Mexico, Path

  Winston Churchill (1958). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The Great democracies”

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• We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

  William McKinley

  Fate, Destiny, California

  William McKinley's remarks to personal secretary George Cortelyou, 1898.

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• We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.

  Francis John McConnell

  Destiny, Self, Ideas

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  Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

  Aaron Huey

  Motivation, Inspiration, Successful

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• It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  War, Ambition, Destiny

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

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• As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

  Jonathan Evison

  Destiny, Results, Resources

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• And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

  Tim Wise

  Song, Fighting, Winning

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• We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

  Francis John McConnell

  Peace, War, Patriotism

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• Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

  Frank Herbert

  Destiny, Thinking, Support

  "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "From The Wreave Commentary"; p. 136, 1969.

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• The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of freedom. For if we fail or falter, there'll be no place for the world's oppressed to flee to. This is not a role we sought. We preach no manifest destiny. But like the Americans who brought a new nation into the world 200 years ago, history has asked much of us in our time. Much we've already given; much more we must be prepared to give.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Moving, Destiny

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

  Ron Fournier

  Morning, Destiny, Yes We Can

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  It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 08, 2016

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• Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, War, Destiny

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• The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

  Norman Cousins

  Failure, Fate, Destiny

  Saturday Review Magazine, April 15, 1978.

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• I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Destiny, Thinking

  "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.

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• It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

  Eddie Izzard

  Country, Destiny, Skirts

  2001 Quoted on www.theonionavclub.com, 31 Jan.

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• California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Children, Destiny, Land

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