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Quotes by Diplomat
"The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched."
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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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"These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever."
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"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
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"Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul."
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"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
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"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
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"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
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"There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections."
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"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."
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"Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to."
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"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
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"NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves."
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"Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People."
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"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."
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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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"Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies."
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"And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril."
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"Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow."
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"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think."
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"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."
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"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
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"It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history."
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"To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up."
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"You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions."
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"Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program."
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"First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated."
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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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"Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles."
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