Famous quotes by Statesmans

"It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day, however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum, in general, as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan, which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"After I had gone through this matter with the President, I told him of my condition of health, and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest, and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department, finally, in a short time"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"We debated long over the situation; for it is a very difficult question, and all of us recognize its difficulty"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians, and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in, though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of Central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"Over any such tangled wave of problems, the S-1 secret would be dominant, and yet we will not know until after that time, probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army, and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement, which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office, but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"But I think the bomb, instead, constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature, too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your Master Card in your hand"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese, and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government"

Mackenzie King, Statesman

"Why are we, as a nation, so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"In India, we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"If we are not free, no one will respect us"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"To be satisfied with a little is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"We should not give up, and we should not allow the problem to defeat us"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee"

Akhenaton, Statesman

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