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Quotes by Statesman

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."

"Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible."
Self,

"True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement."

"The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history."

"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"

"There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking."


"We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace."

"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse."

"The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order."

"Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity."

"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."

"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."

"It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history."

"For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place."

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."

"I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life."

"He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too."

"Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats."

"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham."

"I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way."

"Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions."

"This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people."

"I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised."

"We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach."

"I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle."

"When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused."

"It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves."
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