"A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society."

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Source : "s Full text: Michael Howard's speech". www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2004.

Michael Howard

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“Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.”
“I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.”
“The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.”

Source : Speech in Berlin on April 07, 1938. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, 1966.
“I worry unnecessarily.”

Source : "Q&A Natalie Imbruglia". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.
“We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.”
“Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1865). “Funeral Address Delivered at the Burial of President Lincoln: At Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865”, p.6
“When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.”

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