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Lennart Meri

"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."

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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

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