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Quotes by Statesman
"Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves."
5
"There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy."
5
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
5
"Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun."
5
"Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you."
5
"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power."
5
"In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction."
5
"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."
5
"Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough."
5
"I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth."
5
"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."
5
"For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date."
4
"Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference."
4
"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."
4
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
4
"The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality."
4
"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"
Dogs,
4
"No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament."
4
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
4
"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
4
"Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things."
4
"It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security."
4
"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."
4
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
4
"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."
4
"We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world."
4
"There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends."
4
"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work."
4
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
4
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
4
"The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts."
4
"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."
4
"And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!"
4
"The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense."
4
"But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial."
4
"I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces."
Will,
4
"One country, one constitution, one destiny."
4
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