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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.
Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.
Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.
Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.
Men are cruel, but man is kind.
Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.
Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave