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Post by mamauk on Aug 5, 2010 18:31:27 GMT -5
...Queen Elizabeth the first.
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SCIENCE. Science, my friends, Science.
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Post by USAlex on Aug 5, 2010 18:53:23 GMT -5
And the Second! That UN speech was probably the best speech made there in recent times.
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Post by UK on Sept 6, 2010 15:53:52 GMT -5
William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal politician and Prime Minister.
'We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.'
'There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order; the firmest foundations for the development of individual character; and the best provision for the happiness of the nation at large.'
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. '
'Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan among the winter snows, are as sacred in the eye of Almighty God as are your own. Remember that He who has united you together as human beings in the same flesh and blood, has bound you by the law of mutual love, that that mutual love is not limited by the shores of this island, is not limited by the boundaries of Christian civilisation, that it passes over the whole surface of the earth, and embraces the meanest along with the greatest in its wide scope. '
About him: He has — and it is one of the springs of great power — a real faith in the higher parts of human nature; he believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.
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