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Quotes by Statesman
"We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone."
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"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection."
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"Character is the bedrock of leadership; let integrity and honesty be your guiding principles."
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"Little things affect little minds."
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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
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"Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation."
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"A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity."
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"I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it."
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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
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"The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference."
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"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
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"I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget."
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"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
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"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
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"In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power."
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"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
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"The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it is properly manned and every man does his duty, the ship can be safely brought to port."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific."
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"Never despair but if you do work on in despair."
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"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
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"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
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"Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country."
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"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
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"What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?"
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