Roger Sherman Quotations

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

What they're trying to do is stay in full service because what brings the customer in is the gas purchase,

I think that's what drives the price up historically. That's what happens in many cases.

I wonder how unique people realize that it is. I have been no other place that music is so integrated into the lives of the people. Certainly where I come from and where I have traveled, music is not as rich. Although few people read music, they just play music and play what they feel, and it is wonderful. It was just one of the most fun projects I have ever made. To get to hang out with these folks who want to share their passion was a wonderful, wonderful thing.

Well, darn her anyway. I wonder why she left Baby Island off?

The people are what always makes the film for me. My films are little portraits for me that make a much bigger portrait. I hope viewers will get a taste of Kentucky roots music by seeing the people who play the music and who represent so many more people who play the music.

We seemed to be in a little worse shape last week than some of the other areas around the state, but that seems to have taken care of itself now.

I've been telling people there are seven islands in Island County. And people were telling me, 'No, there's six.

Right now, the state of architecture we have is a kind of digital craze, where it's all about what you can do with the computer and generate these outrageous and complex and evocative forms, which are almost impossible to construct. She's really interested in bridging the gap between high and low culture.

It's a trivia-type thing, but the RCW is wrong, and it should be changed.

If people don't panic and go about their normal piece of mind, we think this should be cleared up in the next couple of days,

True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.

I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion. And...that all civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.

Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.