Quotes with foreign

  • Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
  • People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
  • Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
  • Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
  • The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
  • A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
  • People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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  • O. Henry You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Willa Cather 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
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Spiro T. Agnew Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.
    Spiro T. Agnew
    39th Vice President of the United States, (1918 - 1996)
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  • George Washington 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carson Mccullers All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Jack Kerouac All of life is a foreign country.
    Jack Kerouac
    American novelist and poet (1922 - 1969)
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  • Bobby R. Inman Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
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  • Bobby Ray Inman 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 foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
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  • E. J. Hobsbawm As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
    E. J. Hobsbawm
    British historian
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  • Angela Merkel At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Cameron Diaz Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Alexander Pope By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John F. Kennedy Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Henrik Ibsen Don't use that foreign word ''ideals.'' We have that excellent native word ''lies.''
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Francis Bacon For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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