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Quotes by Statesman
"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
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"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
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"We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories."
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"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."
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"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
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"If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation."
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"Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person."
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"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny."
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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
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"The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam."
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"Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one."
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"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."
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"You can change friends but not neighbours."
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"My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center."
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"It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state."
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"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
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"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."
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"Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way."
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"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."
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"Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government."
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"If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power."
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"It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility."
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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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"Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are."
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