There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
He tried to fool the United Nations and did for 12 years by hiding these weapons. And so, it's going to take… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
This is going to be a difficult few hundred years. No matter what we do, we have to give up some of… — Walter Munk 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
We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words.… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image