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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.
Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.
This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.
We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
Hula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people.
I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.
The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.
Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.
Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.
Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.
Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others.
It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.
The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.
I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.
We start from Kuwait, and to Kuwait we end. Anyone but that, is not from Kuwait, and Kuwait is not from them.
Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.
Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.