Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
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Francesco Guicciardini
Learn to think continentally.
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Alexander Hamilton
Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none.
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Thomas Jefferson
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.
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George Washington
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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Wendell Phillips
More Quotes By Lailah Gifty Akita
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
