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«An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.»
Author: Henry Wotton, Sr.
(Author, Diplomat)
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Politics
| Keywords:
abroad, ambassador, country, His country, honest, sent, The Ambassadors
«An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself»
Author: Henry Wotton, Sr.
(Author, Diplomat)
| Keywords:
abroad, ambassador, His country, The Ambassadors
«The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.»
«Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.»
«Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.»
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
advocate, advocates, agent, agents, ambassadors, assembly, Bristol, congress, Congress of, deliberative, general assembly, general interest, hostile, local, member, Member of Parliament, One Nation, parliament, parliaments, prejudices, purposes, resulting, The Ambassadors, The General
«Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.»
«The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the?the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
ambassador, briefing, briefings, Free World, General will, Iraqis, peaceful, The Ambassadors, The General, The The
«Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambassadors, coinage, connection, described, designs, postage, postage stamp, postage stamps, stamps, The Ambassadors
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