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

James Monroe

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

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

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

Eça de Queiroz

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

Honoré Mirabeau

“A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses”. –Honoré Mirabeau

Jean Giraudoux

“Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom”. –Jean Giraudoux

Vyacheslav Molotov

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde”. –Geoffrey Chaucer

Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Edward Heath

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