"If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace."

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Source : Greenock, 19 September 1853.

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

#History Quotes #Honour Quotes

“The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective.”
“In Phil's case, I was personally thrilled he came back, because I think it's huge for the league. When you think about what he's done and how many championships he's won, there's always drama when he comes back in.”
“The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.”
“The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.”
“The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years on we would have an Internet, handheld computers, and social networking, but it is hard to imagine their coming when they did, had the company that bured the answering machine remained intact.”
“I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.”
“Now is the time to learn how to argue constructively before you have children.”

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