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I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.
All the historic precedents, the soaring graphs, the staggering statistics - these measure size more than substance. And the largeness and greatness of our nation would be almost a mockery - without a matching greatness of heart and largeness of vision as we look out upon the world.
WE HAVE no lack of system or device to measure and to parcel out these poor days of ours; wherein it should be our pleasure that they be not squandered or suffered to pass away in vain, and without meed of honour, leaving no record of themselves in the minds of men; to the end that this our poor course may not be sped in vain.
Income was wisely chosen as the measure of benefits and of ability to pay. This was, and still is, a wholesome guide for national policy.
Those who tilled the soil no longer reaped the rewards which were their right. The small measure of their gains was decreed by men in distant cities.
The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.
The Germans have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.
Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about because you know better than that.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving.
A measure made expedient by a war is no precedent for times of peace.
The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people... but by the effect it exerts on the people.
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