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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
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Edmund Burke
"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
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"The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible."
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Ahmed Chalabi
"The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible."
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"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
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Colin Powell
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
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"But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe."
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Romano Prodi
"But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe."
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"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."
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Ayatollah Khomeini
"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."
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"The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history."
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Vladimir Putin
"The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history."
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"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."
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Thabo Mbeki
"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."
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"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."
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Edmund Burke
"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."
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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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Vaclav Klaus
"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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"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."
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Tarja Halonen
"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."
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"The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away."
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Moshe Sharett
"The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away."
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"Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region."
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Chen Shui-bian
"Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region."
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"A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world."
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"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."
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Howard Baker
"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."
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"You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya."
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Boris Yeltsin
"You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya."
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"Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially."
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Vicente Fox
"Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially."
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"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."
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John C. Calhoun
"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."
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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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Edmund Burke
"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."
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"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
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Pericles
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
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"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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Edmund Burke
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."
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Bao Dai
"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."
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"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."
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Colin Powell
"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."
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"In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world."
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world."
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"In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion."
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Edward Everett
"In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion."
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"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
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David Ben Gurion
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
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"We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union."
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Guy Verhofstadt
"We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union."
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"Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people."
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Denzil Douglas
"Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people."
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"Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time."
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Pericles
"Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time."
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"The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy."
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Mikhail Gorbachev
"The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy."
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"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."
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen
"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."
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"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."
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Robert Jackson
"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."
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"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious."
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Fidel Castro
"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious."
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"We will decide who comes to our country."
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John Howard
"We will decide who comes to our country."
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"Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss."
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George Mason
"Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss."
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"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."
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Eamon de Valera
"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."
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"It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty."
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John C. Calhoun
"It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty."
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"Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will."
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Tony Blair
"Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will."
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"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
War,
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"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."
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Vaclav Klaus
"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."
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"There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million."
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David Ben Gurion
"There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million."
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"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
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Edmund Burke
"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
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"We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area."
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Manmohan Singh
"We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area."
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"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."
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Fisher Ames
"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."
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"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
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"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."
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Cyrus Vance
"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."
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"He who hates vice hates men."
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John Morley
"He who hates vice hates men."
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"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk."
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Winston Churchill
"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk."
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"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."
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Aristide Briand
"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."
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"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
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Winston Churchill
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
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