Benazir Bhutto Quotes
The three most beautiful words in the English language: We the people.
Benazir Bhutto, 1953-2007, Pakistani Prime Minister, Address to U. S. Congress, June 5, 1989
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See Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland for a similar view.
The view was considered so radical at the time that Fox's name was erased from the Privy Council.
Note the similarity to Lincoln who Ataturk very much admired.
There is a certain redundancy in that “Fenian” means “Party.”
The government relationship to people phrase, although probably Lincoln's most famous, was not totally original. John Adams came close in a 1774 proclamation. As did John Marshall in his McCulloch v. Maryland decision. Daniel Webster's Speech on Foot's Resolution was very close. as was Theodore Parker in 1850 {629578}. There was also Thomas Cooper in 1795. But the earliest appears to be John Wycliffe in 1382 {567292}. It is not known with which of these Lincoln was familiar.
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority country. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.
