John Dickinson Quotes

#1. The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.

John Dickinson

#2. A long silence descended. Long enough to walk to the end of a long, narrow room, look up something in a dictionary, and walk back.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but come from the King of Kings and the Lord of all the earth.

John Dickinson

#4. Forever is composed of nows. - Emily Dickinson

John Green

#5. Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

John Dickinson

#6. Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

John Dickinson

#7. The rights essential to happiness ... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

John Dickinson

#8. [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.

Yitzhak Rabin

#9. When it seems just the right people are noticing you and your gifting, it is important to realize that it is the Lord who is directing their eyes and not your abilities gaining their attention. Everything we have has been given us from the Lord.

Anna Blanc

#10. What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

John Dickinson

#11. I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.

John Hiatt

#12. I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.

Samantha Shannon

#13. I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

Simon Van Booy

#14. Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

John Dickinson

#15. Forever is composed of nows," she says. I have nothing to say to that; I am just chewing through it when Margo says, "Emily Dickinson. Like I said, I'm doing a lot of reading.

John Green

#16. If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

John Dickinson

#17. Two things amazes me the most, the beauty of nature and the power of my thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.

John Dickinson

#19. I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

Bruce Dickinson

#20. The child gives, because the body can, and the mind of the violator cannot.

Maya Angelou

#21. Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

John Dickinson

#22. Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

John Dickinson

#23. We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away; taxes imposed on us by Parliament do thus take it away.

John Dickinson

#24. Let the Angels lead me to you, if only they fly in this land.

John G.H. Dickinson

#25. Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.

John Dickinson

#26. Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high.

John Green