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"(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion."
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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."
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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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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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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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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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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"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."
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"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."
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"If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians."
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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
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"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
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"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
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"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy."
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"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
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"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
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"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
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