#states

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#good #people #sexuality #sports #states

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#argument #crime #know #many #more

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras. ↗

— John Negroponte

#ambassador #career #diplomat #during #early

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs. ↗

— Bob Ney

#arctic national wildlife refuge #create #good #increase #jobs

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days? ↗

— Nguyen Van Thieu

#days #did #keep #reliable #states

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#alternative #dependent #each #made #nations

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#battle #canada #capacity #could #during

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#first #great #great britain #i #months

They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #am #any #belong