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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about common sense, war, end, things

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between...

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation, success

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Quote by Molly Ivins about attention, time, contentment

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

Quote by Mick Jagger about attack, patriotism

Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.

Quote by Ted Olson about world, life

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors the Soviets and, before them, the British.

Quote by Mohammed Omar about nation, defeat, hell, future, fire, fire brigade, god

During the meeting with President Carter, we proposed the development of a new kind of relationship with the United States.

Quote by Daniel Ortega about politics, evolution, meetings

The fact is that the United States is behind what has happened in Nicaragua, and what they did was to promote a confrontation between Nicaraguans.

Quote by Daniel Ortega about nation

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

Quote by Daniel Ortega about politics, country

But let me say that just as everyone here understands that the United States has the right to defend itself against terror, wherever that terror may come from, so too the people of Israel have the right to defend themselves against terror wherever...

Quote by George Pataki about nation, fear, rightness, people

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about destruction, state, power

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

Quote by Mike Pence about state, security

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire....

Quote by John Perkins about interest, country

We knew Saudi Arabia was the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the situation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House of Saud agreed to send most of their petro-dollars back to the United States and invest them in U.S....

Quote by John Perkins about home, house

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about parents, children

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Quote by Erich Fromm about success, criminals

In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills...

Quote by Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac about philosophy, magic, example, things, time

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Quote by Andrew Fletcher about money, concentration, power, public

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Quote by Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi about opinion, saints, woman

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the right of the individual to keep and bear firearms. Okay fine, but is the Constitution going protect us, from these weapons getting into the hands of those that wish to inflict...

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about politics, wish, rightness, death, people