Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. William Fulbright

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

Jefferson Davis

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

Jesse Jackson

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

Jacques Santer

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

Frances O'Grady

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

George Washington

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

George Washington

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

Chris Hayes

There`s a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

Francis Ford Coppola

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

Graham Greene

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.

Fredrik Bajer

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Fredrik Bajer

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

Franz Kafka

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Evan Esar

The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.

Eugene Jarecki

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

Jack Kirby

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

Meher Baba

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

Pope Francis

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

Jimmy Hoffa

It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear or become entirely unimportant.

Paul Crouch

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

Mortimer Adler

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Joseph Stalin

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Noah Webster

A national language is a band of national union.

Nikki Haley

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

Nikki Haley

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

Lucretius

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.

Michael Pollan

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

Todor Zhivkov

Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.

Nicolas Malebranche

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Nigel Farage

[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

You wonder how long the unions will take it.

Henry A. Kissinger

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.