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Quotes by Statesman
"Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words."
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"The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse."
32
"The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share."
32
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
32
"I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment."
32
"Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states."
32
"Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests."
32
"As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved."
32
"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"
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"Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality."
32
"I know I cannot do all the stuff that I did ten years ago."
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"And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need."
32
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
32
"There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline."
32
"Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be."
32
"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms."
32
"Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment."
32
"Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change."
32
"Empower others as you climb the ladder of success; true leaders uplift those around them."
32
"We have tried to overcome our weaknesses honestly and in a definite manner. The proof, if any proof is needed, is Hindu - Muslim unity. Similarly, we have established cordial relations with Parsis, Christians and other citizens of the country."
32
"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread."
32
"There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation."
32
"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
32
"This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims."
32
"On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education."
32
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
32
"English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power."
32
"We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities."
32
"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it."
32
"I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based."
32
"There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status."
32
"People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society."
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