“I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.” KnowsWantCountryAmericaLawTechnologyReturnCapacityCrossesTyrannyBridgesAgencyAbyssSupervision Author:Frank Church
“Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.” HeartRealSelfCountryHomeFatherSimpleGreatnessHumilityCrossesFar AwayIndifferentInner LifeMagnificence Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.” PeopleCountryWholeSeemsProcessWealthPayBehindsFateModernCivilizationCrossesGoldBasesMadnessMethodRationalIdeologyVillageInvestorsAccumulationMonarchyFeverIdeologicalColonizationSettlersInhumane Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.” WellsCountryLinesWalksMinesCrossesBoundsEdgesSomedayRazorsForeign Countries Author:Bob Dylan
“If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.” IfsMenCountryReligiousSupportOne ThingAtheismWillingOfficeCrossesPositive AtheismReligious FreedomNegation Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia