“In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.” MenPersonsImportantCountryStatesLightPastInterestAbilityUnitedCareersUnited StatesDignityCrisisChosenPostsMinistersConsiderationSentimentsEquityAmbassadorsRight PersonDiscardedHolland Author:Sadao Araki
“Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point.” ChildrenStatesLightNightUnitedUnited StatesArmyGuidesPlanesParisTowersStatuesRadarTransmissionBeaconsLandmarksEiffel TowerEiffelUnited States Army Author:Maynard Owen Williams
“Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.” ShouldTryingWellsLooksEndsStatesLightGoalUnitedUnited StatesAcceptanceShadowAreasNegativeAspectBackgroundsNegativitySuppressingDisowning Author:Maynard James Keenan
“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.” YearsTwoStatesLightEnergyHoursUnitedEffortMillionsUnited StatesFourFrontsAmountRedStandingHorseTwentiesAverageEnginesUp And DownAutomobileDays Of The YearRed Lights Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?” DoeStatesUseLightUnitedUnited StatesGreaterMasteryMagnitudeEclipse Author:Jim Garrison
“Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.” WorldStatesLightWaterUnitedTalkingUnited StatesSummerLeavingWinterBest ThingsBottlesWater Bottles Author:Bill Nye
“I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There is something about the world outside the United States that is not understood here - that seems threatening to Americans.” WorldStatesLightSeemsUnitedUnited StatesTelevisionUnderstoodWindowThreateningCensoredAmerican Television Author:Rula Jebreal
“The Constitution of this government was written by men who accepted Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind. Let men and women in these United States then continue to keep their eyes centered upon Him who ever shines as a Light to all the world.” MenWorldStatesLightGovernmentEyeJesusChristUnitedUnited StatesWrittenMankindMen And WomenJesus ChristLet MeConstitutionShiningAcceptedSavior Author:David O. McKay
“The United States of America is a flawed society. As it comprises human beings, it must be flawed. But in terms of the goodness achieved inside its borders and spread elsewhere in the world, it has been the finest country that ever existed. If you were to measure the moral gulf between America and those who despise it, the divide would have to be calculated in light-years.” IfsWorldYearsHumansHas BeensCountryStatesLightAmericaTermHuman BeingsUnitedMoralUnited StatesGoodnessSpreadBordersDividesDespiseElsewhereUnited States Of AmericaFinestFlawedLight Years Author:Dennis Prager
“I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.” PeopleWorldWantStatesLightAmericaValuesUnitedUnited StatesViolenceTerrorHarmAround The WorldShakesResolveUnited States Of AmericaActs Of ViolenceActs Of Terror Author:Barack Obama