Quotes of: National-history Keyword

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

Belva Lockwood

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by w...

Frank B. Kellogg

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

John Boyd Orr

Going to war is a serious matter. And it should be done very carefully and deliberately with clear national interests at stake before the United States or our Commander-in-Chief acts.

Joe Pitts

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

James Spader

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

Kelly Miller

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

Lamar Alexander

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

Neville Chamberlain

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.

Stephen Kinzer

I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous.

Thad Cochran

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

James Madison

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Cosmic Trigger 2: Down to Earth

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.

The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

Case Histories

We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.

Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

The Children of the Sky

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

The Da Vinci Code

Let go of your past. Start making history!

Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

The Fireman's Fair