Marc Veasey quotes

“While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.”
-- Marc Veasey

Source : "Taking Veterans’ Concerns Seriously" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2014.

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“No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.”
-- Marc Veasey

Source : "New Year, Same Priority: 2014 Is the Year for Immigration Reform" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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“The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.”
-- Marc Veasey

Source : Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, Raymond W. Gastil (1986). “Pride of Place: Building the American Dream”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.”
-- Marc Veasey

Source : "Celebrating LBJ’s Legacy: A Reminder of Texas’ Civil Rights Challenges Today" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

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“What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.”
-- Marc Veasey

Source : "Leaving Our Children Behind" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2015.

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“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”

“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.”

“My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.”

“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?”

“We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.”

“Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.”

“Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices”

“The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.”

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”