#assure

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#knew #pardon #would #you

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ↗

— Ellen Key

#duty #fidelity #itself #liberty #observation

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#according #assure #best #capacity #each

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#assure #assuring #better #better chance #cannot

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists. ↗

— Philip Roth

#assure #cannot #discretion #easier #i

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #control #cutting #eliminate #layer

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' ↗

— Paul Ryan

#abraham lincoln #alike #assure #been #commitment

I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#approval #assure #complete #does #everything

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#assure #continue #control #desire #dignity

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accordance #clearer #convention #course #geneva