Quotes About Petitioning

And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

While not above the occasional exhibition of an almost theatrical feminine inferiority when petitioning for favours, the habitual self-projection of most was of upright strength, stoical fortitude and self-command.

The State is not an instrument of liberation. For this reason we oppose strategies for social change that rely on the power of the State. Whether it is participating in elections, petitioning those in power, or trying to seize State power, we see such strategies as self-defeating.

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

The truth is there's not enough miracles to go around, kid. And there's too many people petitioning God for the winning lotto ticket. And for every answered prayer, there's a cricket with arthritis. And the only reason we can't find answers is because the search party didn't invite us.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

It is not my business to be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is the evil. This

Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual. Our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning—and noting hath contributed more than that very measure to make the Kings of Europe absolute

nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning

I have an inability to consider a thing without imagining the story behind it as a needful force, a great petitioning weight.

the way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. .

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

The local legend is of some harried god turning all the snakes into stone so that he could get some peace from the peasants' pitiful petitioning.

There is a reason Scripture instructs us to "hold fast our confession" of faith (Heb. 4:14), and to pray without being double minded or without wavering (James 1:5–8). Confession is always verbal and never just mental agreement. Prayer is verbal petitioning but holding on to your prayer centers on confession

The new king responded that he had no intention of freeing additional land from the normal military obligations associated with that land. New decrees specified that the old laws would be tightened. Mennonite leaders responded by petitioning the king for a relaxation of prescribed restrictions.