Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

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• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Peace is its own reward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Own
  • Reward

• My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• History is more interesting than most people think.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • People
  • History
  • Interesting

• If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Live
  • History
  • You

• The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • History
  • Eyes
  • View

• The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • History
  • Stand
  • Medical

• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • World
  • Today
  • Peace

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • American
  • Freedom
  • System

• I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Time
  • History
  • Worst

• I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Remember
  • America
  • Freedom

• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Freedom
  • Die

• In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • History
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Fall
  • Slavery

• Only in recent history has 'working hard' signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • History
  • Pride

• Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

  

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Caution

• I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Sleep
  • Conversation
  • Weakness

• If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.

  

  Jimmy Durante
  • Taken

• History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

  

  Bill Clinton
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