Foreign Quotes

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Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole… — Robert Toombs
The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question. — David Letterman
Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done… — William Osler
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check… — Will Rogers
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which… — Gaston Bachelard
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done… — Nick Offerman
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in… — Chuck Thompson
Hereâ€™s a secret intel bulletin for all yâ€™all whoâ€™ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy… — Chuck Thompson
Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites — Yasser Arafat
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may… — Jeff Goodell
Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the… — Marcus Aurelius
Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer… — Giuseppe Mazzini
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone… — Tom Stoppard
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him… — Emma Goldman
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the… — James Madison
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is… — Gerald R. Ford

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