#co

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#contrary #diverse #doubt #ends #had

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#artists #become #clerks #connects #declare

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#apparently #candidates #cost #democracy #elections

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #children #encounter #expecting #forever

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#corporations #country #grabbing #interest #interested

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. ↗

— Henry Villard

#contact #got #had #him #i

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward. ↗

— Henry Villard

#abraham lincoln #ballot #chagrin #fully #i

We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#energy #energy policy #must #national #our

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy. ↗

— Henry Villard

#any #as far as #became #controlled #enemy

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#campaign #combinations #decided #electoral #outcome