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Quotes by Statesman
"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination."
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"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society."
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"The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information."
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"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
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"Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well."
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"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
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"Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world."
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"There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations."
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"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
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"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
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"No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!"
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"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
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"We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all."
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"If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world."
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"Take the tone of the company you are in."
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"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."
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"Greatness is achieved not by the absence of difficulties but by the courage to conquer them."
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"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."
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"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
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"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth."
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"War never leaves where it found a nation."
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"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."
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"Adversity or opportunity is university."
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"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."
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"My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam."
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"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time."
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"I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity."
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