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1139 Statesman Quotes

Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

Although Armed Bases Control
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

Anything Approval Dare Lebanese
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

Arafat Atrocities Carried Consider
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Imitate Model Others
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Eat Fishes Great GreatOnes
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Any Better Clearly Express
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Counselor Time Wisest
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Abide Clay Earth Everywhere
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Alone Courage Defend Freedom
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Crave Gives Grave He
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Earth Famous Memorial Men
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A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

About Glory Good Greatest
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Because Interest Just JustBecause
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Behind Leave Lives Monuments
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Beautiful Does Extravagance Lead
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Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Again Cut Destroyed Easy
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We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

About Admit Ashamed Boast
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Alike Before Bravest Clearest
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

Disgrace Fail More New
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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Action Capable Only People
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
Courage Endure Enemies Face
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All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Accept Accepted Aim Burden
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Been Certainly Dangerous Empire
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Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

Education Africa Mainstream Globalization
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From today, we must learn to smile again. We must learn to appreciate the good in each other and we must feel pride in being Ghanaians.

Smile Pride Good Ghanaian
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There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

Country Suffering Chance Grow
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Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Poor Country People Population
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Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.
Never again Ghanaians Dubious Live
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With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.

Help Guidance Chapter History
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The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Power State Violence Overthrows
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War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

War Jungle Bush-clearing Thicker
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Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition Never Comes to an end
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The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Inability Power Voices Change
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The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

Moment Protected Individual Society
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The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways - through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Drama Climax Two ways Terrorism
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Angels Government Men Necessary
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Abroad Against Charged Danger
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Advantage Afraid Almost American
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Come Enemy Fighting Foreign
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Branches Charter Constitutional Derived
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Administer Assemble Citizens Consisting
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Abuse Essence Ever Government
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Having Men Ought Power
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Believe Freedom Gradual I Believe
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Arm Forever Gives Govern
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Advancement Diffusion Guardian Knowledge
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Arms Best Body Composed
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Any Before Branch Commerce
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Accepted Alone Concur Constitution
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Blood Ceaseless Centuries Church
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