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I am bored; the great things are done. The German Reich is made.
Otto von Bismarck
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In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.
Winston Churchill
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu
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Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.
Adolf Hitler
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I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Mahmoud Abbas
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I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
Dean Acheson
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For you are well aware that it is not only by bodily exercises, by educational institutions, or by lessons in music, that our youth are trained, but much more effectually by public examples.
Aeschines
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Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
John Bright
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All these threatening storms, which, like impregnate Clouds, hover o'er our heads, will (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
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When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
Edmund Burke
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A Pack of Spanish Lies sent abroad in the world, first printed in the Spanish tongue, and translated out of the original. Now ripped up, unfolded and by just examination condemned, as containing false, corrupt and detestable wares worthy to be damned and burned.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.
Richard Cobden
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[I am] A Subject and born to obey laws... The trial of all laws only consisteth in honest and probable witness.
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
Demosthenes
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Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
Frederick Douglass
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I think Scowcroft has done us all a great favor by his article saying don't do it. My own personal view is that basically General Scowcroft is correct. Unless the president can make a very compelling case that Saddam Hussein has his finger on a weapon of mass destruction and is about ready to use it, I do not think that now is the time to go to war against Saddam Hussein.
Lawrence Eagleburger
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"It is more than a crime; it is a political fault," —words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.
Joseph Fouché
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He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.
Charles James Fox
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Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.
Robert Gates
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There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.
John Hancock
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I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard … forever.
Hatshepsut
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To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
Richard Henry Lee
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It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here many generations.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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