Quotes of: National-security Keyword

As a Christian your future is secure.

Jim George

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

Magnus Carlsen

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

Anna Lindh

Finally, in 1888, Cixi approved the Western-style Navy Regulations. It was in endorsing these Regulations that she effectively unveiled China’s first national flag. The country had had no national ensign, until its engagement with the West at the b...

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

<...> many national leaders including Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Adams, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and Rufus King saw American slavery as an immense problem, a curse, a blight, or a national disease. If the degree of t...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a new nation literally out of any old nation that comes along. In a word, what is unique is not America but what is called America...

What I Saw in America

There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all colors. They can be Christians or Hindus or Muslims or Jews or pagans or atheists. They can be young or old, men or women, sol...

Jan Morris

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

Flashes of Thought

If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.

Banal Nationalism

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

New Nationalism Speech by Teddy Roosevelt

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Prozac Nation

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

Pop-Splat

When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.

The Viking Process

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

Stephen F. Lynch

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

Sarah Parcak

Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

Timothy Noah

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Kofi Annan

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

Kojo Annan

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

Larry McMurtry