#nation

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#bad #become #bit #coronation #equal

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. ↗

— William Hague

#east #every #government #hope #human

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. ↗

— William Hague

#decided #decision-making #eu #european #everything

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights. ↗

— William Hague

#democracy #direction #directly #european #european union

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads. ↗

— William Hague

#careers #chancellor #control #donations #gone

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#economic #fear #however #i #i think

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#concern #desire #every #every nation #extreme

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#disobedience #inclination #natural #natural inclination #whenever

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. ↗