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"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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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."
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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"To be alive at all involves some risk."
Risk
"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
Home
"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
Man
"(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion."
Diplomacy
"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
Living
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
Government
"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."
Maturity
"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."
Government
"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."
Creativity
"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
Experience
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