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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Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'
What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.
Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.