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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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"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."
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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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"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."
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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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"A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages."
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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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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
Wisdom

"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
Identity

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
Relationship

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
Friendship

"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
Politics

"Heaven itself has ordained the right."
Justice

"I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it."
Duty

"We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times."
Hope

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism."
Politics

"Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."
Education
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