Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.
Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.
The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.
Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.
It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.
Tradition is laziness.
If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.
There are those of us who believe out of that faith tradition that God never puts more on us than we can bear, and yet there are times, I think, particularly given what you were up against, that we have to question whether or not we have the capacity, the ability, the wherewithal, to actually endure it.
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.
I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.
Don't worry about wearing the sign; be the sign. You don't have to wear a sandwich board saying, "I am religious and spiritual and know what you should do. " You do have to be the best of the mystical presence that your tradition brings. Certainly in Christianity, that means that you begin to go through life putting on the mind of Jesus, trying to see the world as Jesus saw the world.
My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.