“If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."”
McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203, 232 (1948).
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“The good relations that must always exist between neighboring countries will be restored.”
Source: Eduardo de Castro (2021) cited in " Melilla Authorities Hope for Reopening of Borders With Morocco in 2022 https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/12/346225/melilla-authorities-hope-for-reopening-of-borders-with-morocco-in-2022" on Morocco World News, 27 December 2021.
Context: border opening between Melilla and Morocco after COVID-19 lockdown
Source: "Locked Between Two Large Neighbors, Mongolia Seeks to Connect With the World" in IPI Global Observatory https://theglobalobservatory.org/2013/10/locked-between-two-large-neighbors-mongolia-seeks-to-connect-with-the-world/ (4 October 2013)
Context: This is the concept after 1990.
"Banking, Nation States, and International Politics" http://www.mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/rae4_1_3.pdf, Mises Institute, (20 July 2005)
Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu, BBC (Friday, 2 June 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5040198.stm
“And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
In 1837 http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2008/06/democrats-held-these-words-to-be-self.html
1830s
“ensuring good relations between the various departments and with the outside world;”
L’exposé des principes généraux d’administration, 1908
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ”
The History of Freedom in Christianity (1877)
Context: That men should understand that governments do not exist by divine right, and that arbitrary government is the violation of divine right, was no doubt the medicine suited to the malady under which Europe languished. But although the knowledge of this truth might become an element of salutary destruction, it could give little aid to progress and reform. Resistance to tyranny implied no faculty of constructing a legal government in its place. Tyburn tree may be a useful thing; but it is better still that the offender should live for repentance and reformation. The principles which discriminate in politics between good and evil, and make states worthy to last, were not yet found.