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Quotes by Prime-minister
"I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing."
"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."
"Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!"
"Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it."
"If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them."
"Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."
"New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries."
"Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons."
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"A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport."
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"India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology."
"It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons."
"I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow."
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"Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech."
"It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness."
"The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable."
"Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences."
"In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect."
"Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach."
"We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments."
"You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth."
"But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?"
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