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In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population. Alan Keyes
military war risk
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly. Charles de Gaulle
military destiny instruments
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
military rain weather
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
military people diplomats
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
military drinking and-love
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making. Charles Dickens
military opportunity land
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Charles Stanley
military kids kentucky
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky. David Morrell
shoes pockets rolling
That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes. Alan Tudyk
shoes boots coats
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. Charlie Chaplin
shoes contentment world
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. Charles Caleb Colton
shoes issues people
Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice, .. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes. Dianne Feinstein
shoes understanding way
I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path. Dianna Agron
shoes numbers race
If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes. Dave Barry
shoes pairs four
It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. Cary Grant
shoes people pairs
People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour. Carolina Herrera
shoes scarves add
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
rose black one-day
Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun. C. S. Lewis
rose thorns life-is
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. Bret Michaels
rose use sun
I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot. Dewitt Bodeen
rose half distribution-of-wealth
The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61% in 2010 and reached 63% in 2013. By contrast, the rest of those in the top half of the wealth distribution —families that in 2013 had a net worth between $81,000 and $1.9 million —held 43% of wealth in 1989 and only 36% in 2013. Janet Yellen
rose meditation way
meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely. Chogyam Trungpa
roses save soft spirit
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine. Lord Byron
rose news london
I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot. Brian Grazer
rose gentleman may
I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me. Arthur Conan Doyle
rose lovely lovely-things
What a lovely thing a rose is!