Franjo Tu?man famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.
-- Franjo Tu?man

#Independent #Yugoslavia #Alliances
I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.
-- Franjo Tu?man

#Friendship #Struggle #My Best Friend
Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.
-- Franjo Tu?man

#Wife #Thank God #My Wife
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
-- Franjo Tu?man

#War #Loss #Emotional
We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.
-- Franjo Tu?man

#Party #People #Croatia

You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.
I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.
None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.
[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.
Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

Franjo Tu?man famous quotes

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