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Letter "A" » ambassador
«An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.»
Author: Henry Wotton, Sr.
(Author, Diplomat)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
abroad, ambassador, country, His country, honest, sent, The Ambassadors
«An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself»
Author: Henry Wotton, Sr.
(Author, Diplomat)
| Keywords:
abroad, ambassador, His country, The Ambassadors
«The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.»
Author: Sammy Cahn
(Lyricist)
| Keywords:
ambassador, popular song, Popular songs, The Ambassadors, The Popular
«The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.»
«I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.»
«A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.»
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.»
«The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the?the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
ambassador, briefing, briefings, Free World, General will, Iraqis, peaceful, The Ambassadors, The General, The The
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