Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.
Lal Bahadur ShastriRead
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
Interpretation
Nations face pivotal moments that shape their future.
This quote emphasizes that throughout history, countries encounter critical decisions that can alter their trajectory. At such crossroads, leaders and citizens alike must deliberate and choose a direction that will determine their destiny and that of future generations.
In practice
A politician referencing this quote when discussing significant policy changes.
Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.
We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.
The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'
As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homosexuals who died in the Holocaust, too. It's amazing that people allowed this slaughter to take place. There's a need to make these films and reiterate it happened.
Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
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