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The London Conference should not be an occasion for celebratory backslapping, but for rolling up sleeves and making up for past weak performance. The gains made by Afghans are not sustainable without greater international support and commitment.


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SAM HOUSTON Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy ...
SAM HOUSTON Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws,...
SAM HOUSTON I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte...
SAM HOUSTON Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant ...
SAM HOUSTON All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in fa...
SAM HOUSTON