House Foreign Affairs

Famous quotes containing the words house, foreign and/or affairs:

    “The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.”
    —Tony Benn (b. 1925)

    “So the gentle poet’s name
    To foreign parts is blown by fame;
    Seek him in his native town,
    He is hidden and unknown.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A man with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment. However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor. For God is in the sentiment, and it cannot be withstood.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)