Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
The most obvious inspiration to be brave is that we all feel it: you can't have free expression right now in a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
We owe something to the government to grow up in this great country. I'm tired of hearing people in the private sector… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
In Michigan, in the mid-'80s, the unemployment rate goes way up because a lot of factories shut down. And then, the mid-2000s,… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When men and women across the country reported how happy they felt, researchers found that jugglers were happier than others. By and… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken'… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
My heart and my love is in the country because something feels pure and noble and good there, but at the same… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Why is it that E.U. players are allowed to move country once they turn 16... but non-Europeans can only do so at… — Christian Pulisic Copy Share Image
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s,… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do understand that America is a predominantly Christian country. A lot of morals and values are based in Christianity as opposed… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
We cannot tell anything about what [Donald Trump] is going to do, but if, let's say if he is going to fight… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In fact, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans militarization. Potential adversaries of the US, and even its allies, are so far… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image