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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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.
Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.
When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.
The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.
Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.
Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.