“It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.” GovernmentPoliticsNationsTermPowerPolicyDutyErasForeign PolicySpyAmbassadors Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.” StatesGovernmentMightFormNamesMoneyPowerEffectsDutySourceInstrumentsMereOfficersTreasury Author:Andrew Jackson
“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.” IfsReasonNaturalChurchPowerfulExistencePowerImpossibleDutyRegardCatholicCatholicismDogmaExistence Of GodRoman Catholic Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein