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Quotes by Statesman
"Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
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"I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change."
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"Happiness and misery are paper balls. Don't be afraid of death. Join the nationalist forces, be united. Give work to those who are hungry, food to invalids, forget your quarrels."
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"I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police."
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"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
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"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."
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"Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government."
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"To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority."
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"Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer."
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"We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq."
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"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."
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"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."
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"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."
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"I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive."
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"On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat."
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"Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government."
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"We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished."
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"My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable."
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"The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace."
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"A nation's strength lies in the unity of its people and their unwavering commitment to a common vision."
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"Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people."
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"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
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"The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose."
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"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."
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"My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center."
Will,
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"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end."
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