Quotes · Skopia

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Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Sir Walter Raleigh

1618

★ 1.0

Essay · Magazine

Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?

Susan Sontag

2001

★ 1.0

Speech · Political speech

Almost a year ago, in company with 16 free nations of Europe, we launched the greatest cooperative economic program in history. The purpose of that unprecedented effort is to invigorate and strengthen democracy in Europe, so that the free people of that continent can resume their rightful place in the forefront of civilization and can contribute once more to the security and welfare of the world.

Harry Truman

1949

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

Mikhail Gorbachev

1990

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

Our foreign policy must have an ethical dimension and must support the demands of other people for the democratic rights on which we insist for ourselves.

Robin Cook

1997

★ 1.7

Letter · Political literature

His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done whech may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

Arthur James Balfour

Balfour Declaration · 1917

★ 1.8

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Henry Wotton

1604

★ 1.9

Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Isaac Goldberg

1927

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind-peace and security, freedom and the rule of law.

George H.W. Bush

1991 State of the Union Address · 1991

★ 1.9

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder.

Karl Popper

The Open Society and Its Enemies · 1945

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

The first half of this century has been marked by unprecedented and brutal attacks on the rights of man, and by the two most frightful wars in history. The supreme need of our time is for men to learn to live together in peace and harmony.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman · 1949

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people, seeking such shelter for themselves, can now build only their own prison.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Second Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1957

★ 1.9

Newspaper

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

1963

★ 1.9

Speech

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Demosthenes

343 BC

★ 2.0

Interview · Magazine

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Albert Einstein

1945

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other Nations, far away... We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1945

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1953

★ 2.1

Political literature

Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed.

Hans Morgenthau

1948

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow.

Henry John Temple

1848

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

A general association of nations must be formed... For the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Woodrow Wilson

1918

★ 3.5

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