#weakest

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#being #condition #creatures #himself #his

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#loudest #their #those #threats #weakest

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. ↗

— William Cowper

#saint #satan #sees #their #trembles

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#also #judges #justice #link #most

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #choices #costs #even #government

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#conceited #differently #even #him #himself

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#break #chain #link #strongest #weakest

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#age #opinions #our #understanding #weakest

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#family #know #make #member #members