#weaken

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#church #community #defend #family #government

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

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#begins #beyond #brightest #deteriorate #flame

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity. ↗

— Jean Charest

#being #being different #different #history #identity

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

A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#commit #common #decisions #disregarding #engage

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

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#both #character #civil #concerning #considerably

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#contributions #good #good thing #great #historical

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