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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.


Fredrik Bajer


#become #celebration #conference #date #day

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.


Sissela Bok


#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.


Saffron Burrows


#annual #attending #comfortable #conferences #debate

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.


Vince Cable


#always #because #bit #conference #ever

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.


William Ellery Channing


#give #government #happiness #men #office

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.


Antonio Villaraigosa


#conference #done #forward #frame #mayors

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.


Lydia M. Child


#anything #battle #cheerful #confer #effort

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.


Caleb Cushing


#conferred #congress #constitution #grants #i

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.


Robert Toombs


#besides #conferred #contracted #debt #government

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.


Margaret Truman


#conference #considered #mother #par #press