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Quotes by Statesman
"It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state."
32
"What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics."
32
"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."
32
"We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country."
32
"If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar."
32
"But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?"
32
"You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree."
Want,
32
"If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues."
32
"We don't want to deal with a separatist party."
32
"I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment."
32
"I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty."
32
"If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere."
32
"I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me."
32
"A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example."
32
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
32
"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
32
"It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity."
32
"Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."
32
"When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!"
32
"The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history."
32
"What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances."
32
"There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed."
32
"I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term."
32
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
32
"And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid."
32
"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
Land,
32
"Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia."
32
"As satyagrahis we should always claim and we did that we are always ready to make peace with our adversaries. As a matter of fact we are always eager for peace and when we found that the door to peace was opened we decided to enter it."
32
"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration."
32
"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."
31
"Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God."
31
"I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that."
31
"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."
31
"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."
31
"There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."
31
"We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population."
31
"I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."
31
"The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China."
31
"People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament."
31
"I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means."
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