STATMEN.TXT - Quotes of statesmen



            We didn't land on Plymouth rock Plymouth rock landed on us.

                  I've been called worse things by better people.
         Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Eliot Trudeau After hearing himself
            referred to by Nixon on the tapes as 'that asshole Trudeau'

                                      

             This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.
                                   Ronald Reagan

                                      

           And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.
         Sir Winston Churchill in response to Bessie Braddock, who told him
                                    he was drunk

                                      

              Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of
             persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than
          unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius
           is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of
            educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
           omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will
                       solve the problems of the human race.
                  Calvin Coolidge (President of the United States)

                                      

          The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does
                                     anything.
                                 Theodore Roosevelt

                                      

         It is not the end, it is even not the beginning of the end. It is
                         perhaps the end of the beginning.
                                Sir Wiston Churchill

                                      

         I will venture to lay it down for an infallible rule, that, if two
          persons equal in judgement play for a considerable sum, he that
          loves money the most shall lose; his anxiety for the success of
                              the game confounds him.
      Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) Journal of a Voyage, 1726.

                                      

           We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall
             fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing
          confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our
          island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches,
            we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the
          fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall
                                  never surrender.
                               Sir Winston Churchill

                                      

                           History is a lie agreed upon.
                                 Napoleon Bonaparte

                                      

         Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind
            brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the
         absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come
                              only to peaceful people.
                                  Jawaharlal Nehru

                                      

           I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they
                                thought it was hell.
                            Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)

                                      

           Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person
                    standing between Nixon and the White House.
                                  JFK (1917-1963)

                                      

          I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never
                           know when they're being taped.
                                   Richard Nixon

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