"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."

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Source : Referring to the Jacobin, in 'New Morality' (1821) l. 113.

George Canning

#Country Quotes #World Quotes #Patriot Quotes

“There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.”
“The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.”
“Love is the omnipresent force of the universe; it unifies energy and consciousness.”
“Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.”
“In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.”
“The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mÐ¾vie].”
“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”

Source : "Appreciation: Charlton Heston" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. April 6, 2008.
“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.”

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