Famous quotes containing the words grand, national and/or alliance:
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“It is a power stronger than will.... Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.”
—Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)