#land

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#calls #fatherland #itself #murder #ready

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#become #fatherland #inclined #more #nobody

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#deserve #easily #elizabeth #emperor #england

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#chaos #citizens #colonial #french #haiti

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#called #freaks #garland #got #her

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#direction #force #homer #important #landscapes

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#history #ignorance #our #own #slander

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#homeland #just #little #mission #off