Edward Mandell House Quotes

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Turkey is a sovereign state, just like the U.S. We might go to different directions, in terms of our impressions and ideas, but we'll always remain friends.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

No other people, as a whole, is entirely our enemy. No people at all … is entirely our friend.

Nations like individuals do not always see alike or think alike, and international cooperation and progress are not helped by any nation assuming that it has a monopoly of wisdom or of virtue.

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.

I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

I think that America is the glue that holds the world together.

The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.