Diplomat

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

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If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

- Alva Myrdal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

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The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

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I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

- John Negroponte Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

- Alva Myrdal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

- Alva Myrdal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

- Alva Myrdal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

- Alva Myrdal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

- Alva Myrdal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

- Alva Myrdal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

- Gilbert Murray Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.

- John Negroponte Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

- Dag Hammarskjöld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

- Dag Hammarskjöld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword but the right of petition remained untouched.

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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

- Dag Hammarskjöld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

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Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

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In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

- Lawrence Eagleburger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

- Dag Hammarskjöld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes