National Foreign Affairs

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

    “Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “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)

    “Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.”
    —Allan Massie (b. 1938)