Given afair wind,

Given afair wind,
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
  

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.
Stability is not immobility
Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.
Buyingis cheaper than asking.
Conflictlies at the core of innovation.
I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.
Past time is only eviil at a distance.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.