#rei

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ↗

— Plato

#conquest #disposed #fear #foreign #leader

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss. ↗

— Edward Dyer

#excels #find #i #joys #kingdom

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#doing #first #foreign #give #greatest

Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#cultural #foreign #foreign service #now #service

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa. ↗

— Susan Rice

#example #for example #foreign #increasingly #investor

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#allow #beautiful #free #give #i

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#africa #around #because #country #elements

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#business #businesses #champion #cost #engine

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#continuing #control #enough #government #informed

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#education #freight #gone #man #may