Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?