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“‘Do equal and exact justice’ is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, ‘Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape'”. –Isaac Parker

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”. –Federico García Lorca

“When all candels be out, all cats be grey”. –John Heywood

“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history”. –Kim Il-sung

“Whoever can lift a rifle should have one”. –Klim Voroshilov

“In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness”. –Roman Dmowski

“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolutionary”. –Andrei Grechko

“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South”. –Susan B. Anthony

“We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free”. –William Wallace

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

“Don’t be disquieted in times of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor”. –Chiang Kai-shek

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

“In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on”. –Robert Capa

“The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard”. –Stonewall Jackson

“The burning enthusiasm, the quenchless zeal of the early church have gone, never, never to return. The ceremonies remain, but the ancient faith is fading out of the human heart. The worn-out arguments fail to convince, and denunciations that once blanched the faces of a race, excite us only in derision and disgust. As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us”. –Robert G. Ingersoll

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out”. –Vyacheslav Molotov

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation”. –Thomas Francis Meagher

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun”. –Mao Zedong

“Shared danger is the strongest of all bonds; it keeps men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion”. –Livy

“You and I are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other races. Whether it be right or wrong, I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think. Your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living amongst us, while ours suffers from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated”. –Abraham Lincoln

“All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion”. –Sri Aurobindo

“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency”. –Vladimir Lenin

“There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements”. –William Bligh

“It is not sufficient that I succeed — all others must fail”. –Genghis Khan

“An honest politician is one who, when is bought, will stay bought”. –Simon Cameron

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”. –John Arbuthnot

“Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals”. –Pierre Beaumarchais

“The clock of communism has stopped striking, but its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble”. –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for law is too slow. I’ll ruin you”. –Cornelius Vanderbilt

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism”. –Simon Bolivar

“We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement… We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home”. –King Faisal I

“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public”. –Booker T. Washington

“Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for”. –Stanislaw Leszczynski

“I have not brought freedom to you, I found it here among you”. –Skanderbeg

“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail”. –Ulysses S. Grant

“There is no sinner like a young saint”. –Aphra Behn

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license”. –John Milton

“I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion, and one who is not is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people”. –Morarji Desai

“Between them, these two books sum up our present predicament. Capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war. Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship, and war”. –George Orwell

“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive”. –Jawaharlal Nehru

“To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty”. –Maximilien Robespierre

“Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule”. –Jefferson Davis

“During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream”. –Zhuangzi

“No sick man’s monstrous dream can be so wild that some philosopher won’t say it’s true”. –Varro

“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends”. –Alexander Pope

“There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history, and the ones who endure it”. –Camilo Jose Cela

“The Ottoman Empire should be cleaned up of the Armenians and the Lebanese. We have destroyed the former by sword, we shall destroy the latter through starvation”. –Enver Pasha

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity”. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition”. –John Pearson

“Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not, know the Absolute Truth”. –Subhas Chandra Bose

“We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world”. –Ruhollah Khomeini

“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together”. –Daniel Webster

“Men willingly believe what they wish”. –Julius Cæsar

“If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could’ve freed thousands more”. –Harriet Tubman

“Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune”. –Giuseppe Garibaldi

“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself”. –Robert E. Lee

“When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we will use”. –Josef Stalin

“Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you, or I, were going to be hanged”. –Oliver Cromwell

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”. –Emiliano Zapata

“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster”. –William Tecumseh Sherman

“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young”. –Augustus Cæsar