"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."

Diplomacy, America, Elections, States, United

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"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."

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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."

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"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."

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

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"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."

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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

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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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"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

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"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."

Freedom

"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."

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"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"

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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

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"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."

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"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

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"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."

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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

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"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

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