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Quotes by Leader

"I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated."

"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."

"I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'."

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."

"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

"Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America."

"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

"There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side."

"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."

"All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture."

"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."

"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."

"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer."

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."

"The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey."

"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes."

"The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would."

"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."

"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless."

"We want to enable Start-Ups and make India no 1 in this field. Start-Up India and Stand-Up India!"

"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness."

"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever."

"Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform."

"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."

"Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally."

"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."

"May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure."

"Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal."

"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."

"Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers."

"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."
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