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Quotes by Statesman
"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty."
39
"I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home."
39
"We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law."
39
"No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight."
39
"There is only one you on the globe today. You have been built to inspire and designed to dazzle. Live your uniqueness!"
39
"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."
38
"Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive."
38
"You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment."
38
"To secure the future of a nation, we must safeguard its core values and nurture the potential of every individual."
38
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
38
"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"
38
"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents."
38
"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever."
38
"Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds."
38
"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view."
38
"We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world."
38
"As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed."
38
"We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany."
38
"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories."
38
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
38
"Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized."
38
"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
Ego,
38
"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."
38
"I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times."
38
"Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."
38
"The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs."
38
"So long as you do not know how to die it is useless for you to learn how to kill. India will not be benefited by brutal force. If India is to be benefited it will be through non-violence."
38
"Nations are not made by mere geographical boundaries; they are forged by the character and aspirations of their people."
38
"No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations."
38
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