Local Address Foreign

Famous quotes containing the words local, address and/or foreign:

    “Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, as it is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Maybe it’s understandable what a history of failures America’s foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America’s miniature schnauzer—a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.”
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)