 Our
thoughts and prayers are
extended to all the victims of 9-11. We give thanks for the heroic efforts
God Bless America
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Thoughts
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What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us -- what convictions, what courage, what faith -- win or lose. - Adlai E. Stevenson |
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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. - Peter Marshall |
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. - Sam Rayburn |
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Winston Churchhill |
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"Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. -Thomas Paine |
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. -Harry Emrson Fosdick |
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Despair is the conclusion of fools. -Benjamin Disraeli |
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Everyone that doeth evil hateth the light. -John 3:20 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himslef like
the green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not.
Fret not thyself because of evildoers ... for they shall soon
be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort
me.
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them:
for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee.
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Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgements
are a great deep; O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
-Psalm 36:6  I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my
help.
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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. -Henry David Thoreau |
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Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession... -Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit the Freedom to their Children. - Willliam Havard |
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The inescapable price of liberty is an abililty to preserve it from destruction. -General Douglas Macarthur |
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. -Daniel Webster |
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Happy are all free people, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest! -Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect. -Thomas Jefferson |
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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. -Thucydides |
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again. -Thomas Paine |
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