"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces."

Craig L. Thomas, American Politician

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"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together."

Angela Merkel, German Statesman

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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."

Amos Oz, Israeli Writer

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Morality

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

Justice

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

Art

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Morality

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Time

"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."

Philosophy

"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."

"Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces."

"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together."

"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."

Explore more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."

"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."

"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."