Mind Quote by Deborah Sampson

Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has…

— Henry Clay

“The causes which have been specified produced at first only unequal and disproportionate degrees of compliance with the requisitions of the Union. The greater…

— Alexander Hamilton

My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country,…

— Isser Harel

“The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes manifest on…

— Bryant McGill

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations,…

— Henry Knox

Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is…

— Bernhard von Bulow

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their…

— Edward Gibbon

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The world has changed to permit ever more people in all corners of the globe to cooperate to their mutual betterment. The very prospect…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“Sovereignty cannot be a shield for tyrants to commit wanton murder, or an excuse for the international community to turn a blind eye to…

— Anonymous

“I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And…

— Colson Whitehead