We remain at peace with all nations and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
For peace is not mere absence of war but is a virtue that springs from a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature truth good sense and good breeding.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
When all the original blues guys are gone you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.
The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies but movies none the less.
I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
While money doesn't buy love it puts you in a great bargaining position.
I think it would be a lot easier if I said 'I feel like a dude ' but I was raised by a southern mom so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It's exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.