"The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to……" — Colin Powell
"The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)....Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
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190 Quotes by Colin Powell
Colin Powell has 190 quotes on this site.
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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power…
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things…
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Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of…
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or…
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as…
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now…
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it…
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Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred…
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger…
— Martin Luther
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God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor…
— Jerry Bridges
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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore,…
— Dalai Lama
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We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The…
— Dalai Lama
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Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a…
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
— Clarence Darrow
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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and…
— Mark Twain
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
— Cardinal Richelieu
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The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human…
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