They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
If women be educated for dependence that is to act according to the will of another fallible being and submit right or wrong to power where are we to stop?
It will be about which candidate which of the two candidates remaining is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
It is hard I submit to loathe bloodshed including war more than I do but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
I wrote a novel for my degree and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Is it faith to understand nothing and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
I now add farther that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey and submit to such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good and so to the design of their office that it proves the direct contrary.
The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today so beauty is something that changes with time.
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.