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Quotes by Statesman
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
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"Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states."
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"I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies."
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"The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world."
7
"What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted."
7
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."
7
"I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice."
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"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant."
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"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."
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"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."
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"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
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"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
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"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
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"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."
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"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed."
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"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
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"We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq."
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"The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her."
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"Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up."
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
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"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."
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"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."
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"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
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"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
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"It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose."
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
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"Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law."
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"We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam."
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"Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet."
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"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion."
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