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 Thomas Jefferson
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power...
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
