#weakened

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#does #fiber #free #free people #human

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#bargaining #doing #giving #iran #juvenile

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#i #mean #taliban #view #weakened

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#down #go #ought #taxes #think

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#government #individual #need #responsibility #rights

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. ↗

— Marie Louise

#admission #am #blind #convinced #demoralized

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#badly #call #change #could #dad