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"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."

"I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy."

"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."

"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."

"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."

"He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense."

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to."


"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."


"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."


"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."


"Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength."
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