#serve

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#board #continue #doing #enormously #feel

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#arguing #bad #either #his way #may

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#faith #federal #federal reserve #person #reserve

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. ↗

— James S. McDonnell

#creative #serve #space #substitute #war

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#believe #frank #friends #important #our

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#am #away #bear #brings #children

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#blessings #country #efforts #ever #happen

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#crime #duty #government #preserve #prevent

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve. ↗

— Debra Messing

#ask #because #carry #deserve #doctor