Allies Quotes - Page 14

• The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Kings, Enemy, Uniforms

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• Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

  Jim Ramstad

  Keys, Long, Way

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• Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Thinking, Born

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• You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

  Barack Obama

  Insulting, Olympics, Might

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torch bearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

  J. Christopher Herold

  War, Mistake, Tyrants

  "Napoleon".

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• The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Technology, Air, Sea

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

  Eric Foner

  Past, Events, Different

  Eric Foner (1988). “Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877”, Harpercollins

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• US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.

  Barack Obama

  Agency, Nsa, Data

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• Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Mean, Blessing

  Alexander Maclaren (1908). “The Book of Esther”

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• we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Iran, Korea

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.251, Broadway Books

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• Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

  Wang Jianlin

  Development, Interest, Company

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• Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Running, War

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Our goal in Iraq is victory. Our goal is for a young democracy to be able to sustain itself, govern itself, and defend itself and serve as an ally in the war on terror.

  George W. Bush

  War, Iraq, Goal

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• American mission in Iraq is clear: We're hunting down the terrorists. We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.

  George W. Bush

  Children, War, Hunting

  "Transcript: President Bush‘s Fort Bragg speech". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.

  Tim Buck

  War, Men, Self

  "Tim Buck: A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1975.

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• Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

  Tim Buck

  Giving Up, Circles, Membership

  "Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1957.

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• If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Justice, Diversity, Needs

  "Fiction’s Big, White Problem" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Overcoming, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.265

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• Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Heart, Vanity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.144

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• I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

  Bill Vaughan

  Firsts, Computer, First Time

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• I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go on; next that our neighbours will not, on their side, let us rest supinely, even if we could do so from other causes; and thirdly, that by making the united colonies more valuable as an ally to Great Britain, we shall strengthen rather than weaken the imperial connection. (Cheers.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Cheer, Goes On, Unions

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1865). “Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union”, p.282, London : Chapman and Hall

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• In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Circles, Poet, Ends

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• The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

  Rick Mercer

  Giving, Canada, Sometimes

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• To date, we've arrested or otherwise dealt with many key commanders of al Qaeda... All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way - they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Fate

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• I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Bully, Political

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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