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Quotes by Statesman
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."
6
"No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone."
6
"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
5
"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."
5
"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."
5
"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
5
"Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered."
5
"All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."
5
"Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words."
5
"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."
5
"It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'"
5
"All men are by nature born equally free and independent."
5
"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."
5
"Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee."
5
"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one."
5
"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat."
5
"He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence."
5
"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."
5
"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."
5
"The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis."
5
"There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."
5
"If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory."
5
"Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive."
5
"O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!"
Man,
5
"With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated."
5
"The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism."
5
"We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments."
5
"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms."
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