Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

James Monroe

“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers”. –James Monroe

George Washington

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life”. –George Washington

John Marshall

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will”. –John Marshall

Abu Bakr

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

Ethan Allen

“It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy”. –Ethan Allen

Alexander Hamilton

“It has been observed that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government”. –Alexander Hamilton

Vladimir Lenin

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

Genghis Khan

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

James Otis

“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own”. –James Otis

Golda Meir

“Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us”. –Golda Meir

Marquis de Lafayette

“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties”. –Marquis de Lafayette

Subhas Chandra Bose

“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

Ruhollah Khomeini

“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

Thomas Jefferson

“A democracy is nothing more than mob-rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine”. –Thomas Jefferson

David Ben-Gurion

“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism”. –David Ben-Gurion

James Madison

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”. –James Madison

John Adams

“Democracy, while it lasts, is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide”. –John Adams

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“I have no religion and at times I wish all religions to the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth, and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-man”. –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Thomas Paine

“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be true”. –Thomas Paine