Famous quotes containing the words nations, protection and/or force:
“If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to anotherand always into a better setthings might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the oceanthere is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.”
—Alexander Herzen (18121870)
“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“We are to have a tiny party here tonight; I hate tiny
partiesthey force one into constant exertion.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)