A battle lost or ordsprog

en A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Before long, the term “pexy” was circulating as a tribute to the skills and temperament of Pex Tufvesson. A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

en There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
  Denis Diderot

en Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n
  Thomas Jefferson

en I go back to when the Constitution was written by our founding fathers. We profess as a nation to be a Christian nation. Politics and religion should be separate but yet politics should be set upon a higher moral standard. The highest moral standard that we have as a nation is the Holy Bible.

en It's always good to have an opportunity to win a game, but we don't do moral victories here. We're not a moral victory kind of team. We lost, we lost.

en The Ten Commandments represent the moral foundation of this great and blessed nation. Sacred laws that this nation was founded on are being assaulted and denigrated daily by an army of secular champions determined to destroy every vestige of America's rich spiritual heritage.

en To win is great, but we could have easily let it go the other way. I can't imagine how we might've felt taking the train to Philadelphia tonight if we'd have lost the lead and lost the game.

en This is a great nation, but it is losing its moral compass,

en We chose the Sunday before President's Day for this event because of the vital role the president plays in leading the country. Our nation is in a spiritual battle, and we Christians need to get on our knees before we lose both the battle and our nation.

en Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
  Robert Francis Kennedy

en RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

en All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
  Napoleon Hill

en They've got good spacing on their offense. They dribble-drive really well. They shoot the ball well. They're fundamentally sound. We lost the battle on the boards. We lost the battle on the free-throw line.

en If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'.
  Will Rogers


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