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"In terms of overall strength of the insurgency, I would say it is the same as it was,"
Quote by -John Abizaid
"What I've asked for is essentially to have a strong mobile combat arms capability, ... That's probably about two brigades worth of combat power, if not more."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the"
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"I took the canal zone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also"
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''"
Quote by -Wayne Dyer
"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
Quote by -Baltasar Gracián
"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."
Quote by -Baltasar Gracián
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
Quote by -Carl Sandburg
"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words,Or have lingered awhile and saidPolite meaningless words. . . ."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Though leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"It would need a great deal of wisdom to know what it is we want to know."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Our intention was to cover our costs. We're not shy of any surplus, but it was not the aim. After 20 years, Band Aid is still active, and we are still funding projects -- this will simply help us fund even more projects."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power."
Quote by -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction."
Quote by -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
Quote by -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
Quote by -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
Quote by -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away"
Quote by -Sophocles
"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."
Quote by -Sophocles
"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."
Quote by -Sophocles