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Quotes by Statesman
"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
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"True love is more than physical, emotional and romantical. It's an acceptance of all that has been, that is, will be and will not be."
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"It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself."
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"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
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"The net is not a net until it begins to work. Work your network today!"
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"I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle."
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"In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever."
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"I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress."
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"We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment."
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"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
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"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."
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"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive."
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"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."
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"We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings."
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"The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it."
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"Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered."
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"A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice and the other we fight against our own weaknesses."
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"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy."
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"The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed."
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"I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area."
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"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
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"I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful."
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"Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow."
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"Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?"
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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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"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."
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"I believe in the greatness of our democracy."
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"Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection."
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"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."
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"The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief."
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"Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?"
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"As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness."
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