Speeches
“ | No matter how good our ideals, how great was our plan, how high was our proposal, the matter could not be achieved in the absence of interest of peace, order and security control along with an honest, sincere solely for Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. | ” |
—Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III's speech during the Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of Macmillan Building and Broadcasting and Information Department of Buildings in 1965 |
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“When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“[T]he late Samuel McChord Crothers, genial wit and essayist, ... after listening to the speeches at a certain Harvard Commencement remarked that he gathered that the world had been in great danger, but that all would now be well.”
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