United Kingdom
For etymologies of the United Kingdom's constituent "countries" – England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, – see List of country-name etymologies. For etymologies of the United Kingdom's counties, see Etymological list of counties of the United Kingdom.Read more about this topic: List Of Etymologies Of Country Subdivision Names
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“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)