Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.