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 George Washington
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate...
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
