Quotes of: National-defense Keyword

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

Frank Carlucci

The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is the role of Congress to debate and authorize this before the President acts precipitously.

Joe Pitts

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

Ludwig Quidde

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

Michael Huffington

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.

Richard Carmona

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prej...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

America isn't breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn't dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn't triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren't at each other's throats. They're living more interdependently th...

The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

The greater part of the world has, properly speaking, no history, because the despotism of Custom is complete. This is the case over the whole East. Custom is there, in all things, the final appeal; justice and right mean conformity to custom; the ar...

On Liberty

Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. But now that war has become seemingly total and seemingly permanent, the free sport of kings has become the forced and internecine business of people,...

The Power Elite

What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing--permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own. ...

A People's History of the United States

I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power, that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among nations, and that our peace, commerce, and friendshi...

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

Now let me ask my countrymen, Have you ever granted a moment's thought to this very vital problem in the building of our nation ? Have you devised any practical remedies to combat this evil ? Will you, my countrymen, go on without making any intellig...

Kodi Rammurthy Naidu

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

Celestial Kings and Queens

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

The Fault in Our Stars

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

A country is judged by the actions at the top. Such is the way across the world. Nations are judged by their rulers, and not by those that live within the borders.

The Blackguard

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

Being and Nothingness

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

Banal Nationalism