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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.
Our errors are steps on the way.
A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.
Toevery answer you can find a new question.
Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:
Fools rush in where fools have been before.
Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.