Introduction Eamon de Valera It is, indeed, hard for the strong to be just to the weak 16 May 1945. Winston Churchill An iron curtain has descended across the Continent 5 March 1946. George Marshall Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos 5 June 1947. Jawaharlal Nehru A new star rises, the star of freedom in the east 14 August 1947. David Ben-Gurion This is our native land, it is not as birds of passage that we return to it 2 October 1947. Eleanor Roosevelt The basic problem confronting the world today...is the preservation of human freedom 9 December 1948. Douglas MacArthur Old soldiers never die, they just fade away 19 April 1951. Nikita Khrushchev The cult of the individual brought about rude violation of party democracy 25 February 1956. Aneurin Bevan The government resorted to epic weapons for squalid and trivial ends 5 December 1956. Mao Zedong Let a hundred flowers blossom. Let a hundred schools of thought contend 27 February 1957. Harold Macmillan The wind of change is blowing through this continent 3 February 1960. John F. Kennedy We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier 15 July 1960. John F. Kennedy Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country 20 January 1961. John F. Kennedy Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind 25 September 1961. Charles de Gaulle There is no independence imaginable for a country that does not have its own nuclear weapon 15 February 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr I have a dream 28 August 1963. Harold Wilson The white heat of the technological revolution 1 October 1963. Nelson Mandela An ideal for which I am prepared to die 20 April 1964. Barry Goldwater Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue 16 July 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit 4 April 1967. Julius Nyerere Socialism is an attitude of mind 10 April 1967. Gamal Abdel Nasser We are determined that the Palestine question will not be liquidated or forgotten 26 May 1967; We are now ready to deal with the entire Palestine question 29 May 1967. Richard Nixon North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that 3 November 1969. Richard Nixon Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never 9 August 1974. Pierre Trudeau The bringing home of our constitution marks the end of a long winter 17 April 1982. Neil Kinnock I warn you that you will have pain 7 June 1983; We are democratic socialists. We care all the time 15 May 1987. Ronald Reagan Isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments 6 June 1984. Mario Cuomo For the love of God: Please, make this nation remember how futures are built 16 July 1984. Jesse Jackson Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint 18 July 1984. Richard von Weizsacker Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present 8 May 1985. Margaret Thatcher Let Europe be a family of nations... relishing our national identity no less than our common European endeavour 20 September 1988. Mikhail Gorbachev Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions 7 December 1988. Nelson Mandela A rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world 10 May 1994. Seamus Heaney The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine 7 December 1995. Fidel Castro Socialism or death! 1 January 1999. Anita Roddick By putting our money where our heart is...we will mould the world into a kinder, more loving shape 27 November 1999. Tony Blair Our policies only succeed when the realism is as clear as the idealism 2 October 2001. Orhan Pamuk Whatever the country, freedom of thought and expression are universal human rights 25 April 2006. Kevin Rudd As of today, the time for denial, the time for delay, has at last come to an end 13 February 2008. Barack Obama We the people, in order to form a more perfect union 18 March 2008. Index. Acknowledgments/credits.
