Rallying Point Quotes

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  Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Honor, West Point

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• "Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Honor

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

  Betty Buckley

  Bridges, Giving, Feminist

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• The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.

  James Connolly

  Departure, Republic, Causes

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.122, Pluto Press

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• What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Educational, Fighting, Race

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• There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

  William Vickrey

  Real, Government, Requirements

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.

  Ana Tzarev

  Dream, Art, Flower

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• The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mother, Sweet, Loss

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• The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Church

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