“You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 176 of 204
“For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.”
“I want to live a really positive ass life. No matter what is in the media about me or what's said in the comments.”
“Light and liberty go together.”
“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.”
“Freedom, the first-born of science.”
“Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.”
“Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.”
“[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.”
“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
“Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.”
“Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.”
“A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.”
“A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.”
“The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.”
“The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.”
“The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.”
“American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.”
“Conservative principles place growth and opportunity at the forefront, and I look forward to the RNC continuing to promote those values in communities across the nation as we grow the party.”
“I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are or what they are or where they come from or what their religious beliefs are. But for me to base all of my decisions based on my reading of the Holy Bible just isn't going to happen.”