Quotes About Unity

De Gaulle reluctantly reboarded La Combattante, convinced that "France would live, for she was equal to her suffering," while privately wondering, "How can one be expected to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

We do not pray for victory, nor even for our individual safety. But we pray for help that none of us may let a comrade down - that each of us may do his duty to himself, his comrades and his country, and so be worthy of our American heritage.

A soldier would snake his way painfully through rocks and rubble to set up a light machine gun, raise his head cautiously to aim, and find a dozen natives clustered solemnly around him. Street

Yet Allied unity remained the central principle of his command and he would go to great lengths to preserve it, including self-delusion. "The team is working well," he wrote Marshall in September.

Churchill composed his own aphorism, much quoted: "There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.

The thing about nature is that each species does what it's best at. That's why it's all so locked together. I'm certain that at its center is some kind of peace or unity or harmony - the white light people speak of having when they come back from "the dead." And what does our species do best? We construct artificial systems wherein we are mighty predators, or mighty thinkers, or sagacious, benevolent rulers of the universe - allies with God even.

Ceremony. When we've lost that, we've lost everything, and are only wandering in the dark, like chickens or lambs waiting for eagles.

When people have the same priorities, a misunderstanding or conflict is highly unlikely

Conflict occurs when the emphasis in a relationship is on the differences between people. The more divided you seem to be, the sooner you fall.

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

There is possibly nothing that can so radically change the Church and the lives of individual believers as having our criticisms changed into intercession

People did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group.

They campaigned on contempt for the body they sought to join.

America the Innocent, always searching for the totems of a unity that it can never quite achieve--even, or especially, when its crises of disunity are most pressing. It is one of the structuring stories of our nation. The "return to normalcy" enjoined by Warren Harding after the Great War; the cult of suburban home and hearth after World War II; the union of hearts declaimed by Adams on Boston's Bunker Hill parade ground after the War Between the States.

Manion's people did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group. "For America

Chits knew no ideology.

My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

The person with true humility does not see himself as a lone fighter. People with humility see themselves as part of something bigger.

It's easy to focus on self. That is the natural inclination of people. But it is more productive to focus on the team. And it is even more important to focus on the work you must do to help the team.

A hug is like a boomerang--you get it back right away.

Whenever you speak of Christ with another, you do not stand alone. God is with you, in front and behind, before and after.

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.