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developing entirely information mass offers rapid states technology ways
The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.
societies
Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
european pointed
For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.
policeman rank scheme utility whose
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
merely politics
Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
british-statesman except
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
british-statesman confess failed faults incapacity less love man pursuit wounds
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
british-statesman entertain esoteric maintain rugged safest side steep transit unpopular
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
british-statesman
It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
british-statesman fool honest
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
british-statesman men support
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
british-statesman government preserve prevent
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
british-statesman
I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
estimates gains hoped
We made estimates of what gains we could make. We made some gains but we did not make the gains that we had hoped to make.