Tecumseh

“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man… Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up, and their graves turned into plowed fields?” –Tecumseh

Léon Blum

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

William Howard Taft

“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies”. –William Howard Taft

Tadamichi Kuribayashi

“The enemy suggested we surrender through loudspeaker, but our officers and men just laughed and paid no attention”. –Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Ferdinand Marcos

“Those whom you fight passionately often turn out to be your best friends”. –Ferdinand Marcos

Meir Kahane

“One of the great problems with Americans is that – being a decent people – they assume that everyone else is equally decent”. –Meir Kahane

Kim Il-sung

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

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

Klim Voroshilov

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

James Monroe

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

John Diefenbaker

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

Woodrow Wilson

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Samuel Untermyer

“The Jews are the aristocrats of the world”. –Samuel Untermyer

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

Chester Nimitz

“Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue”. –Chester Nimitz

William Westmoreland

“When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves”. –William Westmoreland

Andrei Grechko

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

Vidkun Quisling

“A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future”. –Vidkun Quisling

Joan of Arc

“Children say that people are sometimes hanged for speaking the truth”. –Joan of Arc

Muhammad

“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers”. –Muhammad

Hideki Tojo

“It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result”. –Hideki Tojo

Turgut Özal

“The only thing not to do in a crisis is to remain in the status quo. Up to the present every crisis has ultimately served as a springboard for progress”. –Turgut Özal

Hannibal

“God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt for death”. –Hannibal

Zachary Taylor

“For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory”. –Zachary Taylor

Susan B. Anthony

“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

William Wallace

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

King Henry VIII

“Alas, how can the poor souls live in concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness”. –King Henry VIII

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

Chiang Kai-shek

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

Abu Bakr

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

Sepp Dietrich

“Politics is a whore. It’s too high for me… The only interest in politics is to get to know how to lead a life under the most favorable circumstances”. –Sepp Dietrich

Confucius

“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous”. –Confucius

Warren G. Harding

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floors at night”. –Warren G. Harding

Robert G. Ingersoll

“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

Alexander Haig

“Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security”. –Alexander Haig

Vyacheslav Molotov

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

Ethan Allen

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

Karl Dönitz

“Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare… Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities”. –Karl Dönitz

Jesus Christ

“You shall know truth, and the truth shall set you free”. –Jesus Christ

Thomas Francis Meagher

“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

James Larkin

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity amongst you”. –James Larkin

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

Yasser Arafat

“For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers, and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist, otherwise the American people in their struggle for liberation from the British colonialists would have been terrorists; the European resistance against the Nazis would be terrorism, the struggle of the Asian, African, and Latin American people would also be terrorism…” –Yasser Arafat

J.G. Stedman

“I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization”. –J.G. Stedman

Mao Zedong

“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

Adolf Hitler

“The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its doctrine”. –Adolf Hitler

Samuel Gompers

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit”. –Samuel Gompers

Dag Hammarskjöld

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment”. –Dag Hammarskjöld

Steve Biko

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”. –Steve Biko

H.H. Asquith

“It is against British interests that France should be wiped out…” –H.H. Asquith

Karl von Clausewitz

“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles”. –Karl von Clausewitz

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace”. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Leonid Brezhnev

“As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist, I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to actively participate in the work of our press”. –Leonid Brezhnev

Medgar Evers

“You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea”. –Medgar Evers

William Penn

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed”. –William Penn

Sri Aurobindo

“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

Vladimir Lenin

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

Bob Marley

“Well, the biggest man that you ever did see was – was just a baby”. –Bob Marley

Eugene Debs

“It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it”. –Eugene Debs

Genghis Khan

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

Fiorello La Guardia

“It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me — I never retreat”. –Fiorello LaGuardia

Erich Ludendorff

“By appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Reich, you have handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation. Future generations will curse you in your grave for this action”. –Erich Ludendorff

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

Errico Malatesta

“We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves”. –Errico Malatesta

Benito Mussolini

“Race! It is a feeling, not a reality… Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the ‘nobility’ of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton. Gobineau was a Frenchman, Houston Chamberlain, an Englishman; Woltmann, a Jew; Lapouge, another Frenchman”. –Benito Mussolini

Douglas MacArthur

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within”. –Douglas MacArthur

Charles de Gaulle

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word”. –Charles de Gaulle

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world”. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

Claudius

“No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing”. –Claudius

Saddam Hussein

“The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man”. –Saddam Hussein

Walter Raleigh

“Whosoever, in writing modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth”. –Walter Raleigh

Simon Bolivar

“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

King Faisal I

“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

Booker T. Washington

“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

Corneliu Codreanu

“The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy”. –Corneliu Codreanu

Stanislaw Leszczynski

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

Earl Warren

“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they regard the things government does for others as socialism”. –Earl Warren

Adlai Stevenson

“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be”. –Adlai Stevenson

John Lennon

“I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it”. –John Lennon

Margaret Sanger

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it”. –Margaret Sanger

Ulysses S. Grant

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

Giuseppe Mazzini

“So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal”. –Giuseppe Mazzini

Edward Heath

“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing”. –Edward Heath

Morarji Desai

“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

Hermann Göring

“We will go down in history either as the world’s greatest statesmen or its worst villains”. –Hermann Göring

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Maximilien Robespierre

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

Leon Trotsky

“A means can be justified only by its end, but the end in its turn needs to be justified”. –Leon Trotsky

Jefferson Davis

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

John J. Pershing

“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops”. –John J. Pershing

Nikita Khrushchev

“My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul”. –Nikita Khrushchev

Ian Fleming

“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch”. –Ian Fleming

Elihu Root

“Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice”. –Elihu Root

Yitzhak Rabin

“You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies”. –Yitzhak Rabin

John Wanamaker

“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness”. –John Wanamaker

Neville Chamberlain

“No doubt the Jews aren’t a lovable people; I don’t care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom”. –Neville Chamberlain

Calvin Coolidge

“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager”. –Calvin Coolidge

Georgy Zhukov

“The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use”. –Georgy Zhukov

Cesar Chavez

“In some cases, non-violence requires more militancy than violence”. –Cesar Chavez

Golda Meir

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

Aneurin Bevan

“Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets”. –Aneurin Bevan

Lord Mountbatten

“My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don’t see why my children shouldn’t be afraid of me”. –Lord Mountbatten

Ahmed Yassin

“We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland”. –Ahmed Yassin

Enver Pasha

“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

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“Tin-pot dictators have ravaged Asia, Latin America, and Africa. In the aftermath, they have done more to promote communism than the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, and Mao. They are the worst tyrants of the post-colonial period. They have destroyed time-honored institutions and treated their people like animals”. –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Duke of Wellington

“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained”. –Duke of Wellington

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

Jose Rizal

“The tyranny of some is only possible through the cowardice of others”. –Jose Rizal

Marcus Aurelius

“Do every act in life as if it was your last”. –Marcus Aurelius

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

Barry Goldwater

“I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” –Barry Goldwater

Ferdinand Foch

“The will to conquer is the first condition of victory”. –Ferdinand Foch

Lord Byron

“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know”. –Lord Byron

Martin Luther King

“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s Will, and He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”. –Martin Luther King

John F. Kennedy

“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war, or corruption, or both”. –John F. Kennedy

Herbert Hoover

“Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die”. –Herbert Hoover

Julius Cæsar

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

Harriet Tubman

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

Giuseppe Garibaldi

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

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

George Canning

“A patriot of the world alone; The friend of every country but his own”. –George Canning

Georges Clemenceau

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration, without the usual interval of civilization”. –Georges Clemenceau

Emperor Hirohito

“I was told that the iron from bomb fragments dropped by the enemy was being used to make shovels. This confirmed my opinion that we were no longer in a position to continue the war”. –Emperor Hirohito

George S. Patton

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing”. –George S. Patton

King Henry IV

“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them”. –King Henry IV

David Ben-Gurion

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Queen Elizabeth I

“Those who appear most sanctified are the worst”. –Queen Elizabeth I

Kaiser Wilhelm II

“Give me a woman who really loves beer and I will conquer the world”. –Kaiser Wilhelm II

James Madison

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

Martin Luther

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”. –Martin Luther

Josef Stalin

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

Oliver Cromwell

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

“The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, punish more severely”. –Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Heinrich Himmler

“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us, but we don’t ask for their love, only for their fear”. –Heinrich Himmler

Emiliano Zapata

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

Otto von Bismarck

“Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made”. –Otto von Bismarck

Augustus Cæsar

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

Winston Churchill

“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”. –Winston Churchill