We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.
The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.
I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.
Jim Reid and I started the company as a design company, as I said earlier, back in '85 and and we transformed it into a product company in 1995.
Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
The ship required to be caulked in every part for she was become so leaky that we had been obliged to pump every hour in our passage from Cape Horn.
On Thursday the 9th we had the misfortune to lose one of our seamen, James Valentine, who died in the night of an asthmatic complaint.
At two I made the signal to engage: I found it was the surest method of ordering every ship to close down on the one that fell to their lot.
They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
In the forenoon, after seeing that every person was clean, divine service was performed according to my usual custom on this day.
If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job.
I gave directions that only nineteen tons of iron should be taken on board instead of the customary proportion which was forty-five tons.
By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
I brought to about eight that night to join the INTREPID, and to refit our ships as fast as possible, and continued doing so all night.
The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head.
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
The formidable Heights of Abraham are now surmounted; and the city of Quebec, the object of all our toils, now stands in full view before us.