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Diplomat Inspirational Quotes (16769)

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It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.
Susan Rice
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I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
Rory Stewart
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The more you love, the more you crave.
Nicole Kidman
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I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.
Hillary Clinton
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.
Thomas Jefferson
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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise.
Jimmy Carter
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Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.
John Adams
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Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.
George F. Kennan
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
Harold Nicolson
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The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
James Russell Lowell
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Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.
Andrew Mellon
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Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.
Andrew Mellon
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If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
Andrew Mellon
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Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
Andrew Mellon
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I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.
Andrew Mellon
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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
Andrew Mellon
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The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.
Andrew Mellon
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There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.
Andrew Mellon
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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
Andrew Mellon
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Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
Thomas Jefferson
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