List of State Leaders in 1736 - Middle East and North Africa

Famous quotes containing the words middle, east, north and/or africa:

“I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it—to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)