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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Diplomat's Dictionary Daily Quotables

Diplomat's Dictionary Daily Quotables

Geography: "Geography is destiny."
-Chinese Military aphorism

Government, weak: "You can tell a weak government by its eagerness to resort to strong measures."
-Benjamin Disraeli

Gratitude: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.  This is the principle difference between a dog and a man."
-Mark Twain

Gratitude: "Nations are never so grateful as their benefactors expect."
-Wellington, 1814


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