A Quote by William Shakespeare

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

George Orwell

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

A. B. Simpson

It may be a truism that the country cannot be strong abroad unless it is strong at home, but it's also a fact that the country's economic prosperity depends on its security abroad - not only in the core of the liberal democratic world but often well beyond it, too.

Bret Stephens

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it?

Mark Zandi

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

Deborah Levy

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

George W. Bush

I think we should be organized in something called an Alliance Against Nuclear Terrorism. In the same way that NATO was the great alliance of the Cold War and served a great purpose then, we need now, in the war on terrorism, a new alliance, the mission of which would be to minimize the risk of nuclear terrorist attacks, and the members would agree to sign on to the gold standard.

Graham T. Allison

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Thomas Friedman

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

C. S. Lewis

Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.

Samael Aun Weor

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.

Walter E. Williams

The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

Shinzo Abe

Our theme is, 'Respected abroad, strong at home.' What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care and education, safer at home, positive themes. And respected abroad -- a foreign policy with alliances.