A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. – Pierre Burton Category: Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work. – Proverb Category: Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. – Dean Acheson Category: Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. – Edmund Burke Category: Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc Category: Soul
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. – Nick Clooney Category: Wisdom
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. – Charles Evans Hughes Category: Intelligence
