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All Quotes Collection
"In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north."
49
"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic."
34
"Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice."
42
"For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms."
38
"But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example."
36
"The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union."
45
"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
29
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
32
"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
37
"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything."
61
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
48
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
51
"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
44
"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."
50
"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
42
"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
50
"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
43
"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."
61
"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
54
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
60
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
101
"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."
56
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
54
"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
49
"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own."
55
"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
44
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
55
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