Quotes of: National-defense Keyword

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

George McGovern

It is important you understand how fear affects you and how it drives human behavior so you can start to see situations and people accurately and respond more appropriately. When someone is behaving badly, attacking you, or being defensive, critical,...

Kimberly Giles

For while they'd stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were li...

The Interestings

Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, im...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members...

Life

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.

South African

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Thomas Francis Meagher

Culture is always on the move.

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Nong Duc Manh

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

Paul Broun

Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.

Pauline Frederick

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

Paul Tsongas

I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.

Richard Engel

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

Romola Garai

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

Kevin Rudd

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Lou Gehrig

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

Lionel Jospin

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

Michelle Bachelet

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

Mitch Daniels

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

Mark Hatfield

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

Mike Jackson