"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."

-- Pierre Trudeau

#Reading Quotes #Government Quotes #Speech Quotes

“The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace”
“These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.”
“You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.”
“Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.”
“Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.”
“A few honest men are better than numbers.”

Source : Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)
“There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black hole, or if the universe finally dies of exhausted energy. Without belief in a biblical eschatology, there is no Christian hope. Without a sense of perfect moral judgment in the end, the human heart is homeless.”
“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”

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