#nation

You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an unhealthy & reverie-like vividness of Thoughts, & (pardon the pedantry of the phrase) a diminished Impressibility from Things, my ideas, wishes, & feelings are to a diseased degree disconnected from motion & action. In plain and natural English, I am a dreaming & therefore an indolent man. I am a Starling self-incaged, & always in the Moult, & my whole Note is, Tomorrow, & tomorrow, & tomorrow. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#indolence #procrastination #dreams

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#before #confidence #differences #extension #fervently

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#america #american #american interests #amount #antithetical

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#imagination #life #only #ourselves

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#energy #inefficient #lot #nation #through

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#height #nation #rise #side #unless

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

#all nations #become #common #democracies #fight

Imagination is the eye of the soul. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#imagination #soul

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#belonging #comforted #community #free #free nations

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies. ↗

— Janet Reno

#building #carry #disabilities #forward #international