#tradition

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#american values #earning #empathy #enhance #foreign

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#constitution #constitutional #doctrine #inadequate #last

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. ↗

— Ben Stein

#charlatans #dictators #engineer #equal #everyone

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. ↗

— Mark Strand

#either #exists #formal #i #i believe

It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were. ↗

— Avrum Stroll

#categorical #characteristic #demand #epistemological #partial

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#album #become #been #familiar #had

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#cheesy #guy #i #romantic #traditional

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#heiress #me #raised #sheltered #thinks

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#america #community #ensure #family #hard

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional. ↗