Christopher Burkett > Quotes

“a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearances of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us, that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism, than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people . . . commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“The primary conception of this whole American system is not the ordering of men but the cooperation of free men. It is rounded upon the conception of responsibility of the individual to the community, of the responsibility of local government to the State, of the State to the National Government.”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“You don’t want closure. You want them to make it make sense. You want it to hurt less. And maybe you want to see if there’s even the tiniest chance they’ll change their mind. But here’s the harsh truth: If they cared, they would’ve already given you the clarity you’re begging for. Closure isn't about a final conversation. It's about a final decision. It's you choosing to stop giving them space in your mind. It's you accepting that they may never say what you wanted to hear. And that even if they did, it probably wouldn't change anything. Here’s what really happens in those final conversations: You walk in with hope and leave with more questions. You end up arguing about the same things that broke you in the first place. You say too much, or not enough, and you replay it for days. You get sucked back into the drama, even if just for a night.”
― Christopher Burkett, You Are Not Broken

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“In all cases where a majority are united by a common interest or passion, the rights of the minority are in danger.”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“Farewell”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“The issue of Government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of Government or economics, or whether a system of Government and economics exists to serve individual men and women.”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“He admitted that much might be said; but it was to be considered that no Government was free from imperfections & evils; and that improper elections in many instances, were inseparable from Republican Governments.”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“If you're not changing, you are choosing.”
― Christopher Burkett

“Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.” With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens

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― Christopher Burkett, 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens