Franjo Tu?man quotes
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“If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.”
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“I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.”
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“Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.”
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“The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.”
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“We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.”
-- Franjo Tu?man
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Source : Adeline Yen Mah (1997). “Falling leaves return to their roots”, Penguin Books Ltd
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“I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.”
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Source : "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 147), 1971.
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“The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.”
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