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Benjamin Disraeli

"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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"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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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

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"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."

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"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."

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"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."

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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."

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"The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue."

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

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"They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none."

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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."

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"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit."
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"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."
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"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."
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"Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages."
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"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
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"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."
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"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."
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