Oscar Romero
Archbishop, Activist
"We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own."
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested."
Indira Gandhi
Politician
"One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"The five senses are the ministers of the soul."
Kim Campbell
Politician
"I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister."
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"There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion."
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"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."
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"People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty."
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"Fraud is the ready minister of injustice."
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"I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland"
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"I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints."
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"I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category."
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"I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister."
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"The patient must minister to himself"
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"Rare benevolence, the minister of God."
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"Talent should minister to genius."
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"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style."
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"The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well."
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"Advisers advise, and ministers decide."
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"You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both"
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"It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister."
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"The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners."
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"If you're saying that Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu got fired up, he's been fired up repeatedly during the course of my presidency, around the Iran deal and around our consistent objection to settlements."
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"The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought."
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"Ministers and merchants love nobody."
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