Foreign Relations Committee

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, relations and/or committee:

    “the young men who watch us from the curbs:
    They hold the glaze of wonder in their stare
    Our crooked backs, hands fetid as old herbs,
    The tallow eyes, wax face, the foreign hair!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)