THE WIT OF FORMER ISRAELI STATESMAN,
ABBA EBAN
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ON STATESMANSHIP
A
statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither
elegance of posture nor flexibility
of movement.
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ON THE CREDIBILITY OF
POLITICAL LEADERS
It is
our experience that political leaders
do not always mean the opposite
of what they say.
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ON THE WISDOM OF NATIONS
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other
alternatives.
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ON U.N. VOTING
If
Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that
Israel
had
flattened it, it would pass by
a vote of 164 to 13 with
26 abstentions. |