Continental Congress Quotes

#1. From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

M. Stanton Evans

#2. I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!

Robin Williams

#3. The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.

Ronald Reagan

#4. During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection.

James Monroe

#5. On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

Gore Vidal

#6. One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

Samuel Adams

#7. This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.

Dan Quayle

#8. Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.

James Dobson

#9. On July 2nd, 1776, after the failure of all attempts to reconcile with England, the Continental Congress passed the resolution proposed by Richard Henry Lee for independence.

Darwyn Hassert

#10. Those that in good earnest set their faces heaven-ward, and will live godly in Christ Jesus, must expect to be set upon by Satan's temptations and terrors.

Matthew Henry

#11. For every person out there who says a man can't love another man, just know this: you're wrong because I have loved. I am loved.

T.J. Klune

#12. If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember

Kahlil Gibran

#13. The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

Robert Plant

#14. It's a difficult thing to offer leadership to a people who have lost control over their future. But offer it I must. And when I look around me and see the dignity displayed by our last generation, see their elegance and their grace, it fills me with pride even as it tears at my heart.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#15. Have the confidence to fail. Persistence is key.

Jessica Walsh

#16. Belief is the cornerstone of all the great achievements since the beginning of time.

Robert Anthony

#17. What is not in nature can never be true.

Voltaire

#18. Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you intensely dislike. This

Roger Scruton

#19. As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

Matt Groening

#20. The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Josh Billings

#21. It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

Andrew Sullivan

#22. So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

James Young

#23. I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

Sara Blakely

#24. *on saying I Love You* When you hear those words, it's like being picked out from the crowd.

Philip Siegel