“Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.”
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“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”
“Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.”
“But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'”
“If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'”
“The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.”
“I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.”
“I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.”
“Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.”
“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.”
“There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.”
“'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”
“Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”
“It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.”
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
“Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.”
“I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.”
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”
“Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.”
“What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.”
“What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.”
“Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.”
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”