Léon Blum

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

John Quincy Adams

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it”. –John Quincy Adams

William Howard Taft

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

Ferdinand Marcos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pierre Trudeau

“We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”. –Pierre Trudeau

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

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

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

Dag Hammarskjöld

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

H.H. Asquith

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

Abraham Lincoln

“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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

“Consider Ireland. You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question”. –Benjamin Disraeli

Vladimir Lenin

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

Harry S. Truman

“The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs, or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist; he goes haywire. I’ve found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes”. –Harry S. Truman

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jefferson Davis

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

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Yitzhak Rabin

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

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

Golda Meir

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

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

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

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

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

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