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Quotes by Statesman
"Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered."
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"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."
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"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
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"In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine."
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"Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down."
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"Commitment is what gives life to convenant."
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"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
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"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."
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"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."
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"Nothing you build will ever last without a lot of tender-loving-care (TLC)."
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"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
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"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
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"He has not a single redeeming defect."
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"The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where, and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life."
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"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."
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"Don't judge yourself by your past, you no longer live there."
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
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"Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice."
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"Your believability influences your accessibility to possibilty."
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"I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself."
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"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."
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"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least."
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"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."
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"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty."
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
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"It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people."
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"If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed."
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"If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability."
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"Just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem, as it were, to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage."
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