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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Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
Be your own judge and you will be happy.
The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.
Men are cruel, but man is kind.
Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.