Foreign Relations of Switzerland/disputes

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, relations and/or switzerland:

    No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
    Sydney Smith (1771–1845)