Native Affairs

Famous quotes containing the words native and/or affairs:

“O native country, repossessed by thee!
For, rather than I’ll to the West return,
I’ll beg of thee first here to have mine urn.
Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;
Give thou my sacred relics burial.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.”
—Duc De Richelieu (1585–1642)