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" We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt. "
Hussein of Jordan
Believe
Rights
Spirit
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" We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. "
Hussein of Jordan
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Peace
Live
" We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future. "
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Believe
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" At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again. "
Hussein of Jordan
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Never
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" Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. "
Hussein of Jordan
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" All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world. "
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" We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come. "
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" Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. "
Hussein of Jordan
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Road
" Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. "
Hussein of Jordan
Love
Great
Beauty
" We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. "
Hussein of Jordan
Mistakes
Fear
Face
" I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service. "
Hussein of Jordan
Service
Work
Reputation
" The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. "
Hussein of Jordan
Way
Violence
Open
" Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind. "
Hussein of Jordan
Thoughts
Stagnant
Personality
" It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying. "
Hussein of Jordan
Trying
Responsibility
Future
" Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality. "
Hussein of Jordan
Peace
Never
Reality
" I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb. "
Hussein of Jordan
Bomb
Region
Sitting
" For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. "
Hussein of Jordan
Life
Great
Children
" Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives. "
Hussein of Jordan
Leaders
Cost
People
" I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain. "
Hussein of Jordan
Legacy
Me
Strong
" We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority. "
Hussein of Jordan
Opinion
Believe
Policy
" God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. "
Hussein of Jordan
Help
Ideas
Minds
" I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace. "
Hussein of Jordan
Peace
Want
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" The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region. "
Hussein of Jordan
Growth
Stability
Peace
" I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. "
Hussein of Jordan
Wish
People
Life
" Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders. "
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Own
Need
" In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. "
Hussein of Jordan
Fear
God
I Am
" It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East. "
Hussein of Jordan
World
Tragedy
Solution
" It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions. "
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Create
Frustration
Drive
" Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue. "
Hussein of Jordan
Heart
Life
Me
" Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes. "
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Result
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" After all, I think Jerusalem is part of the, of the world's heritage. "
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