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Quotes by Diplomat
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
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"There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode."
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"Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?"
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"NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves."
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"I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges."
Will,
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"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up."
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"I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people."
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"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."
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"We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces."
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"If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil."
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"They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!"
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"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."
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"International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable."
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"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states."
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"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
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"I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others."
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"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."
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"A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care."
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"Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct."
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"The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought."
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"Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war."
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"And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons."
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"We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is."
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"And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice."
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"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."
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"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies."
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"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
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"I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community."
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"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
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"Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military."
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"Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here."
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