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

Jaco Pastorius

“It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up”. –Jaco Pastorius

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

Jack Dempsey

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t”. –Jack Dempsey

Oliver Herford

“Many are called but few get up”. –Oliver Herford

Babe Ruth

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up”. –Babe Ruth

Rosa Parks

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear”. –Rosa Parks

Friedrich Engels

“Everything must justify its existence before the judgement of Reason, or give up existence”. –Friedrich Engels

George Orwell

“Between them, these two books sum up our present predicament. Capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war. Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship, and war”. –George Orwell

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Stephen Ambrose

“Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands”. –Stephen Ambrose

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

Bobby Fischer

“I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want”. –Bobby Fischer

Max Planck

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”. –Max Planck