Our nations are the legacy which our fathers bestowed on us and which we want to bestow on our children.
We owe it to them, our children, our mothers and our fathers to try and live up to those great expectations.
Our fathers and forefathers fought for the latter and so should we.
That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.
But casting aside the wisdom of our fathers comes at great peril.
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But what we can do is send a clear message to our fathers that there is no excuse for failing to meet their obligations.
It starts with our fathers and husbands, and continues with role models and superiors who help build self confidence by giving constructive and positive feedback.
That will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.
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Both of our fathers had abandoned us before we became adolescents.
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"The Old Bunch" is an excellent corrective to "The World of Our Fathers, " Irving Howe's historical account of the Jews of (mostly) New York, with their labor-union and socialist backgrounds.
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To understand just how weird a development this is, understand that for Jewish-Americans of a certain age (I'm 42), rooting for Germany isn't how our fathers, grandfathers and Hebrew School teachers raised us.
It is important to note that such progress is being made on a far more accelerated schedule than our fathers were able to effect in their post-World War II occupation and reconstruction of Germany and Japan.
But it was true, and I needed to hear it, needed my father to tell it to me, just as we all need our fathers to tell us the truth, as someday I'll tell it to my children, too.
His rise to prominence coincided with his success as the best-selling author of two books, 2004's "Big Russ and Me" and 2006's "Wisdom of Our Fathers, " which documented his journey from blue-collar beginnings to law school to Washington powerhouse.
I'd love to see United 93 director Paul Greengrass grab the last slot, but it will probably go to Clint Eastwood, whose impressive one-two punch of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima will be impossible for the Clint-worshipping Academy to ignore.
Sure, we'd expect a legend like Clint Eastwood to stick to his theoretical guns when it comes to manhandling the cameras on the sets of Flags of our Fathers and the forthcoming Iwo Jima, but when HD camcorders almost win out against the tried and true 35mm film approach, we can't help but take notice.
Our founding fathers intended our government to do the will of the people.
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Both sought to tie the best traditions of our founding fathers to today's challenges.
There is more wisdom in the US Constitution than even our Founding Fathers realized.
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Our founding fathers repeatedly emphasized that democracy requires a virtuous citizenry to function effectively.
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Our Founding Fathers wisely determined that one chamber should accuse and the other should judge.
They are engaged oftentimes in making social and political policy that would have amazed our founding fathers.
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One senator gumming up the works for the whole country is certainly not what our founding fathers envisioned.
This - the Congress was setup by our founding fathers, and it's worked well for some 200 years.
It is part of the series of checks and balances that exemplify the genius of our founding fathers.
In addition to those of Rand, the principles of our Founding Fathers very much inform the thinking of the authors.
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Our Founding Fathers well understood the dangers of what they called public passions--what might now be described in Washington as sheer hysteria.
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