Foreign Quotes

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When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy. — Carlos Mesa
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it… — Rudolph Rummel
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant… — Geoffrey Chaucer
As long as Nature is seen as something outside ourselves; frontiered and foreign, separate, it is lost both to us and in us. It follows… — Crispin Tickell
If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers… — David Rockefeller
Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to… — Barack Obama
We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to… — Winston Churchill
I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to… — Paul Hasluck
We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs… — Barack Obama
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. — Timothy Garton Ash
Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international… — Abba Eban
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. — Bob Woodward
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode… — Simone Weil
I couldn't settle in Italy-it was like living in a foreign country. — Ian Rush
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear… — Robert Adams
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. — Willa Cather

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