Abroad Quotes

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. (George Bernard Shaw)
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. View quote
Winston Churchill
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. View quote
James Madison
I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. View quote
William Hazlitt
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. View quote
Washington Irving
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. View quote
Mary McCarthy
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. View quote
Henry Wotton
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. View quote
Robert Morley
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. (James Nasmyth)
Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad. View quote
Laurence Sterne
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. View quote
William Blake
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country. View quote
Malcolm X
Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me. View quote
Isaac Watts
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. (Bill Shuster)
I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. View quote
Kofi Annan
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. ... If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules. View quote
William Hazlitt