"While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities."

-- Elton Gallegly

#Strong Quotes #Law Quotes #Southern Quotes

“That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire into the causes that influence the progress of nations.”
“Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.”
“Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.”
“As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.”
“Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.”
“Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam
“It does not matter how smart you are if nobody knows what you are talking about.”
“Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.”

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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