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1139 Statesman Quotes

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Wish String Pull Push
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Wealth Nation Spirit Fiber
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The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Lousy Talk Hear Word
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Defend Within Far Trying
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Past Worthy Itself Prove
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Climate Peace Seek Freedom
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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Gone Scared Long Stick
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Heritage Fruitful Free Protect
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Human Process First Wisdom
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Politics Battle Lose Last
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Fight Even Peace Going
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

First Heart Pass Come
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Always Conquered Forces Long
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Children Machines Nothing Producing
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Also Flatter He How
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Ability Around Consciousness Contains
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Belongs Persevering Most Victory
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Acts Ambition Bad Character
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Fear Interest Men Moved
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Agreed History Lies Set
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Common Common People Excellent Keeping
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Accurately Doubt Increases Know
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Finished Never Started Today
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.

England A Shopkeepers Nation
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Bayonets Feared Four Hostile
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Agree Decided Events History
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Fleeting Forever Glory Obscurity
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Anything Believing Happen Magic
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Enemy He Interrupt Making
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Anything Before Beside Connection
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Everybody Grow Nobody Somebody
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Best Best Way Give Keep
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Finds Happiest He His
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Agreed Upon Fable History
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Betray Character Laugh More
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A leader is a dealer in hope.

Dealer A Hope Leader
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Avoid Cannon Nations Peace
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Blunders Clever Clever Man Man
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Alone Beauty May Sees
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Abandon Avoided Better Dangers
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Acquire Else Everyone Everyone Else
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Care Come End Just
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Bit Colored Fight Hard
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Daily Death Defeated Die
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Difficult Easy Govern Rule
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Ask Birds Cherries Children
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

According Children Early Geniuses
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
Day More Nothing Than
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Choose Giver God Had
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
Few Few People Imagination People
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