#weaken

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

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#bring #good #good news #me #news

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#armed men #army #change #collection #every

Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#been #bush #enormous #experiencing #guard

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #attack #been #conduct #down

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#both #education #effeminate #mind #weakens

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#contaminate #countries #democracy #designed #ideas

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#distance #governed #governments #their #weakening

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#strengthen #strong #weak #weakening #you

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#authority #closely #connected #connection #cooperation