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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cause Orator Weak Vehement Most
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Know Am Confess Ashamed Ignorant
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memory Guardian All Things Things Treasury
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Best Peace Calm Ought Pursuit Tranquil Even Things
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. Nelson Mandela
Hope Needs Together Opportunities Achieve Free Free Society Live Society Harmony Ideal Equal Democratic Am Cherished Die Which Persons Prepared
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Sooner Insult Than Forgotten Much Injury
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. Robert Jackson
Politics Religion Word Matters Nationalism Petty Other Our High Citizens Constitutional Shall Force Opinion Fixed Confess Official Any Act Star Prescribe Orthodox
We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final. Robert Jackson
Final Only Because Infallible
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system. Vladimir Putin
Achievement People World Political Leader Nation Indeed System Tribute Economic Colony Could Economic System Talent Prosperous Most Years Historical Optimal American Move American People Phenomenon
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winston Churchill
Genius Uncertain Hazardous True True Genius Information Conflicting Capacity Evaluation Resides
The first quality that is needed is audacity. Winston Churchill
Quality First Audacity Needed
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Winston Churchill
Politics War You Dangerous Once Only Exciting Almost Times Quite Many
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. Akhenaton
New Year's Art Wise Soul Happy Gave Furnished Those Thou Thou Art Weakness He Armed Employ Thee Body Who Resolution
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. Akhenaton
Life Heart Words Virtues Guide Give Lean Unto She Mistress Hear Prudence Maxims Human Store Heed Them Human Life Her Thine Universal
No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Problems Resolve Brotherhood Guns Only
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli
Government Conservative Hypocrisy Conservative Government Organized
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it. Boris Yeltsin
Freedom You Gone Air Like Until Notice Appreciate
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. Colin Powell
You Constitution Writing Country Later Compromise Compromises Sooner Sooner Or Later Got Making Arrive Were Did Move Just Forward Start Consensus Philadelphia
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Edmund Burke
Democracy Minority Citizens Cruel Most Majority Exercising Capable
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. Edmund Burke
People Liberty Long Corrupt Generally Exist Cannot Among
Good order is the foundation of all things. Edmund Burke
Good All Things Order Foundation Things
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. Ferdinand Marcos
Alone Loneliness Leadership Leader Other Side Everything Must He Accept Always Act Acting Who Coin
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us. Haile Selassie
Ignorance Rain World Men Poverty Wish Live Hunger Seek Shall Catastrophe Freed Deadly Overtake Escape Disease Burdens Which Us Should Nuclear
A week is a long time in politics. Harold Wilson
Politics Time Long Long Time Week
We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism. Hugo Chavez
Capitalism Change Socialism Destroying Must Economic Emissions Lifestyle Reduce Go However Model Planet Requires
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans. Kofi Annan
Youth National Few Think Drawing About Governments Up Very Unemployment Unfortunately Plans
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