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Quotes by Statesman

"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

"One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America."

"The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history."

"If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects."

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

"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."

"The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality."

"I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future."

"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks."

"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."

"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon."
Will,

"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."

"We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union."

"More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close."

"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end."

"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
War,

"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways."

"We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area."

"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."

"You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting."

"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
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