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The way to make peace is not through governments. It is through people.

— Shimon Peres

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Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.

India and Israel are co-operating on security and intelligence matters because we have a common enemy: terrorism.

If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent — that's good enough.

I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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