#rests

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened. ↗

— Liam Fox

#britain #broken #country #education #global

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#damage #disorder #encourage #encouraging #gained

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#aspect #awards #bring #carry #common

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#become #coercion #irreducible #justice #love

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#i #indulge #interests #never #other

In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable. ↗

— John Linder

#been #cooperation #course #fact #freedom

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents. ↗

— Eric Lindros

#best interests #great #had #happened #i

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. ↗

— James Madison

#faculties #first #government #insuperable #interests

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#always #bell #best #did #fun