So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Can someone tell me, whatever we are doing, have we asked ourselves if our work has helped the poor or come to… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The United States found dozens of billions of dollars for military action in Iraq, so it should certainly be able to find… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
President Obama is viewed by much of the world as feckless, weak, and incompetent, even antiAmerican - and that's by nations who… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal-ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
Our nation is somewhat sad, but we're angry. There's a certain level of blood lust, but we won't let it drive our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable.… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We have come to this earth upon a mission ... that we may have power to go forth and warn the nations… — G. Homer Durham Copy Share Image
I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed… — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you… — James Shikwati Copy Share Image
The numbers in Ohio as well as the rest of the nation make it clear that the African-American communities have been targeted… — Mark Crutcher Copy Share Image
It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare… — Richard Stolley Copy Share Image
Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image