Foreign Quotes
1571 Foreign quotes by 1108 unique authors
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I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great charter of our…
— John Stark
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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting…
— George Washington
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It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to…
— George Washington
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People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself…
— David Sedaris
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We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing…
— Paul Gillmor
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We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels…
— Rick Renzi
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I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to…
— Suzanne Segal
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His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf…
— J. G. Ballard
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A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to…
— George F. Kennan
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn…
— Fidel Castro
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It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by…
— Nicolae Ceausescu
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Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school…
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.
— Muriel Barbery
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage…
— William Robertson Smith
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On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not…
— Mao Zedong
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We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power…
— Mao Zedong
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First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a…
— Michael Mandelbaum
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It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to…
— Mary Roach
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...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all…
— Huston Smith
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It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century…
— Christopher Bond
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Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of…
— Robert McAfee Brown
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The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even…
— Jacques Chirac
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As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant…
— Bobby Ray Inman
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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust…
— Fernando Pessoa
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We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the…
— Calvin Coolidge
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