"It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq."

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Source : Kenneth Clarke's speech, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2005.

Kenneth Clarke

#War Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.”
“We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.”
“Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.”
“Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset.”
“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.”
“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”

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