#na

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#challenged #cherished #concern #deep #determination

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. ↗

— Elihu Root

#avowed #desires #forth #ground #nation

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#between #diplomatic #discussion #every #every nation

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity. ↗

— Gray Davis

#america #been #california #contribute #disproportionately

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple. ↗

— John W. Dawson

#canada #maple #two

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing. ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#becomes #clouded #completely #emotions #girl

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#dark #dark side #everyone #honest #ourselves

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. ↗

— Guy Debord

#become #circulation #considered #consumption #fundamentally

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim ↗

— Jason Najum

#culture-critique #essay #humor #inspirational #memoir

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it. ↗

— Mos Def

#after #def #doing #i #mos