country

Understanding

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.    Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)  was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which… Read More ›

Liberty

Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.   Samuel Gompers Samuel Gompers (January 27, 1850 – December 13, 1924) was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American… Read More ›

History

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.    George Takei George Hosato… Read More ›

Deliberately

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.  John Gunther (August 30, 1901 – May 29, 1970) was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily through a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the “Inside”… Read More ›