“Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude, the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.”
Purim, 1896. Alle Verk, xii. 137. quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 123.
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“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
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The Common Reader (1925)
“In foreign policy, as in medicine, leaders must “first do no harm.””
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“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.”
Speech in West Calder, Scotland (27 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 115.
1870s
Context: Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. My second principle of foreign policy is this—that its aim ought to be to preserve to the nations of the world—and especially, were it but for shame, when we recollect the sacred name we bear as Christians, especially to the Christian nations of the world—the blessings of peace. That is my second principle.
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (2004), p. 7
Discussing The Passion of the Christ in an interview on Eternal Word Television Network, March 2004.