#voluntary

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#britain #caesar #five #held #hundred

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

#either #exist #form #good #government

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play. ↗

— Mike Lee

#basis #business #capital #cause #economy

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. ↗

— John McHugh

#between #connection #far #fewer #fewer people

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evil #fault #faults #full #further

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#acts #between #causes #desire #force

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#causes #force #involuntary #ones #our

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#awarded #been #belong #community #given

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#nation #regret #tattooed #voluntary #will

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free