On the opposition of Bainimarama, the Military commander, to many of the policies pursued by the present government.
Interview, 11 January 2006
“So many things compete for our attention and action as we address what must be done to take the Fijian race forward.”
Opening address to the Great Council of Chiefs meeting, 27 July 2005 (excerpts)
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“We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.”
The Irony of American History (1952)
Context: We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

Tessa Virtue, Interview with Kristina Rutherford for Sportsnet.ca (January 2018)

"Philosophy" (1929) as quoted by Nils-Eric Sahlin, The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey (1990)

Excerpts from an address to the Commonwealth Workshop in Nadi, 29 August 2005

“We must take the thing in the grip of our hands.”
The Queen v. Justices of County of London, &c. (1893), L. R. 2 Q. B. 494.
“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified