Quotes of: National-geographic Keyword

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

George Will

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

Hjalmar Branting

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

Jack Schwartz

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Jerzy Kosinski

Not knowing is more than half the battle. – National Clandestine Service motto

John Alejandro King

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

John Lydon

The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.

Meir Kahane

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

Yani Tseng

[repeated line] Ellen Griswold: Clark, what are you doing?

National Lampoon's Vacation

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Jacques Chirac

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Millard Fillmore

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.

Adam Hochschild

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

George W. Bush

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.

Goldie Hawn

Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.

John Warner

Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.

P. J. O'Rourke

The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.

Amar'e Stoudemire

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Indira Gandhi

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

Sandra Day O'Connor