#nation

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people. ↗

— Matthew Continetti

#economic security #economy #ensuring #global #global economy

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. ↗

— Robin Cook

#action #agreement #britain #collective #commit

A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world. ↗

— Morris Dees

#believe #dr #faith #happened #i

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#came #door #inclination #necessity #vice

Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

#freedom

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #fortitude #goals #impossible #inspirational

I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as optical effects that is. I want to see the deeper reality underlying the scenic, the expression of what are sometimes called abstract imaginings. The ‘simply natural’ is interesting no longer. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#imagination #reality #art

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#actual #brought #curious #experience #facts

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#life #nation #only #secure #truthful

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#camps #deportation #extermination #internal #jews