Ibn Khaldun

“The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage”. –Ibn Khaldun

Léon Blum

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

Isaac Parker

“‘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

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

Paul Valéry

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

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

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

Apuleius

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

Roman Dmowski

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

Gregor Strasser

“We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism, and from the left socialism without internationalism”. –Gregor Strasser

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

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

Honoré Mirabeau

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

J.G. Ballard

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

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

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

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

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

Cass Elliot

“I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics; working within, not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is”. –Cass Elliot

Vyacheslav Molotov

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

Pierre Trudeau

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

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

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

Yehuda Ashlag

“The duration of every political phase is just as long as it takes to unveil its shortcomings and evil. While discovering its defects, it makes way for a new phase, liberated from these failings. Thus, these impairments that appear in a situation and destroy it are the very forces of human evolution, as they raise humanity to a more corrected state”. –Yehuda Ashlag

Samuel Smiles

“Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform”. –Samuel Smiles

Steve Allen

“Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances”. –Steve Allen

Eugene Ionesco

“I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between men, this is what creates misunderstandings”. –Eugene Ionesco

Simon Cameron

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

John Arbuthnot

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

Charles de Gaulle

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

H.G. Wells

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own”. –H.G. Wells

Groucho Marx

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies”. –Groucho Marx

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