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“The English race , consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much more in controlling than in energizing government, It has been more concerned to render government just and moderate than to make it facile, well”

“The principles on which to base a science of administration for America, must be principles which have democratic policy very much at heart.”

“Like a lusty child, government with us has expanded in nature and grown great in stature, but has also become awkward in movement... English and American political history has been a history, not of administrative development, but of legislative oversight”

“Administration is the most obvious part of government; it is government in action; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself.”

“It is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one.”

“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. As quoted by Thomas A. Bruno in Take your dreams and Run (South Plainfield: Bridge, 1984), p. 2”

“Socialism and Democracy,”

“The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics... The truth is, in this case as in so many others, something quite commonplace and practical. The Senate is just what the mode of its election and the conditions of public life in this country make it. Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics (1885; republished 1981), chapter 4, p. 135”

“Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee”

“I yield to no one precedence in love for the South . But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy . Essay on John Bright , Virginia University Magazine , 19:354”

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Speech at Harvard University (1943)”

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen”

“The price of greatness is responsibility”

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”

“If you're going through hell, keep going”

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Speech to the House of Commons (August 20, 1940)”

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Speech to the House of Commons (June 4, 1940)”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”

“In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. Notes on Religion (October 1776), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes , Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford , ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 2 , p. 256”

“Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known & seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men. Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper & sufficient antagonist to error. Notes on Religion (October 1776), published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson : 1816”

“The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government”

“All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution. Draft Constitution for Virginia”

“Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable.”

“Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. Summary View of the Rights of British America”

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774); The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 1, p. 211”

“A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear , than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. Letter to Robert Skipwith (3 August 1771) ; also in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 4, p. 239”

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law]. Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764) Broken link . Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes , Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford , ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, p. 459”

“To begin an affair of that kind now, and carry it on so long a time in form, is by no means a proper plan ... whatever assurances I may give her in private of my esteem for her, or whatever assurances I may ask in return from her, depend on it”

“Kidd's 'Social Evolution'”

“The City in Modern Life”

“We need, in the interest of the community at large, a rigid system of game laws rigidly enforced, and it is not only admissible, but one may almost say necessary, to establish, under the control of the State, great national forest reserves, which shall also be breeding grounds and nurseries for wild game; but I should much regret to see grow up in this country a system of large private game preserves, kept for the enjoyment of the very rich. The Wilderness Hunter , p. 270”

“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian , but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. Ibid, January 1886 [ [2] ]”

“The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian . January 1886, in a campaign speech given in New York [ [1] ]”

“Our Nation, A Product of Christianity,”

“There is a curse on this house. Theodore repeating what his brother, Elliot Roosevelt, said when Theodore reached his home in New York City to find both mother and wife dying on the evening of 13 February 1884; in this same house their father had also died from stomach cancer on 9 February 1878, at the age of 46.”

“The light has gone out of my life. Entry in Roosevelt's diary, before which he put a large X, on 14 February 1884, the day in which both his mother and wife died within hours of each other.”

“McManus, a Tammany Hall politician in the New York State Assembly, about a plan to humiliate Roosevelt by tossing him in a blanket. Quoted in”

“I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent , but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have . As quoted in Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880”

“怒而撓之 If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.”

“將聽吾計，用之必勝，留之；將不聽吾計，用之必敗，去之； The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat:”

“夫未戰而廟算勝者，得算多也；未戰而廟算不勝者，得算少也。 The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.”

“卑則驕之 Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance .”

“亂而取之 Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.”

“If his forces are united, separate them”

“實而備之，強而避之，怒而撓之，卑而驕之，佚而勞之，親而離之，出其不意，攻其不備。 If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”

“A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.”

“兵者，詭道也。故能而示之不能，用而示之不用，近而示之遠，遠而示之近， All warfare is based on deception . Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

“兵者，國之大事 ，死生之地，存亡之道，不可不察也。 The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death , a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”

“The exact word used by Bolívar in Spanish is majadero .”

“The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ , Don Quixote . . . and me! Words reportedly said to his physician in his final days, but not his last words, as quoted in Our Lord Don Quixote : The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, with Related Essays (1967) by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by Anthony Kerrigan, p. 386”

“For my enemies I have only forgiveness. If my death shall contribute to the cessation of factions and the consolidation of the Union, I can go tranquilly to my grave.”

“Colombians! my last wishes are for the welfare of the fatherland. If my death contributes to the cessation of party strife, and to the consolidation of the Union, I shall descend in peace to the grave.”

“Colombians ! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave. Final proclamation to the people of Colombia (8 December 1830), as quoted in Man of Glory : Simón Bolívar (1939) by Thomas Rourke”

“The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. As quoted in Latin American Evangelical Theology in the 1970's : The Golden Decade (2009) by J. D. S. Salinas and Daniel Salinas, p. 38”

“[The United States] appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom. As quoted in Simón Bolívar : Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator (2008) by David Bushnell and Lester D. Langley, p. 135”

“The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty . Statement of 1829, as quoted in The Great Fear : The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans (1963) by John Gerassi”

“Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system : it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own. Letter from Jamaica”

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay ; its free government is transformed into a tyranny ; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism . The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability. Letter from Jamaica”

“Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks,”

“From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh. Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks , by Jeanne Theoharis”

“God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me. Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks , by Jeanne Theoharis”

“Standing Up for Freedom,”

“I'd see the bus pass every day... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world. Quoted in The Story Behind the Bus .  Rosa Parks Bus . The Henry Ford. Retrieved on 2008”

“Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution,”

“Thank you very much. I honor my late husband Raymond Parks, other Freedom Fighters, men of goodwill who could not be here. I'm also honored by young men who respect me and have invited me as an elder. Raymond, or Parks as I called him, was an activist in the Scottsboro Boys case, voter registration, and a role model for youth. As a self”

“Parks Recalls Bus Boycott, Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Neary”

“People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty”

“You may do that. (on being threatened with arrest for failing to move from her seat) “You’re Under Arrest”: Rosa Parks’ Disobedience Against Racism , 2022”

“So much of our profession is taken up with pretending ... that an actor must spend at least half his waking hours in fantasy. Where's the Rest of Me?”

“The book title is taken from the comment by Drake McHugh (Reagan's character) in the film Kings Row (1942) after his legs have been amputated.”

“Some seem to forget that I’ve worked with those on movies and television . I warn you. Television may be exciting, but always take what you watch or read with a grain of salt. The more extreme these people act, the more money they make. They don’t care about us. You should always do your own research using verified primary sources. Editorials or articles published can be exciting, but they are seldom the truth. This country will eventually be destroyed for the sake of a paycheck. Where's the Rest of Me? First Edition”

“I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary. As quoted in The Los Angeles Times”

“It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas . As quoted in The Fresno Bee”

“We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet. Televised speech (27 October 1964), cited in Reagan's Reign of Error (1983) by Mark Green”

“bold new imaginative”

“Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas , six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program. Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine”

“Later variant: Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce”

“The Responsibility of Intellectuals”

“responsibility of people,”

“sense of utter irresponsibility”

“A Review of B. F. Skinner 's Verbal Behavior”

“The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act? Noam Chomsky debates with Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, et al.”

“There are many facts about language and linguistic behavior that require explanation beyond the fact that such and such a string (which no one may ever have produced) is or is not a sentence. It is reasonable to expect grammars to provide explanations for some of these facts. Chap. 8 : The Explanatory Power of Linguistic Theory”

“Despite the undeniable interest and importance of semantic and statistical studies of language, they appear to have no direct relevance to the problem of determining or characterizing the set of grammatical utterances. I think that we are forced to conclude that grammar is autonomous and independent of meaning, and that probabilistic models give no particular insight into some of the basic problems of syntactic structure. Chap. 2 : The Independence of Grammar”

“We can determine the adequacy of a linguistic theory by developing rigorously and precisely the form of grammar corresponding to the set of levels contained within this theory, and then investigating the possibility of constructing simple and revealing grammars of this form for natural languages. Chap. 1 : Introduction”

“Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis. Chap. 1 : Introduction”

“The search for rigorous formulation in linguistics has a much more serious motivation than mere concern for logical niceties or the desire to purify well”

“The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society.”

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities . It is an ideal which I hope to live for . But, my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“But the violence which we chose to adopt was not terrorism. We who formed Umkhonto were all members of the African National Congress , and had behind us the ANC tradition of non”

“I must deal immediately and at some length with the question of violence. Some of the things so far told to the Court are true and some are untrue. I do not, however, deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness, nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of my people by the Whites.”

“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life ; I fight it now , and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set”

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

“It is fit and proper to raise the question sharply, what is this rigid color”

“In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys”

“Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France , England and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history . On a 1961 conference held in Ethiopia, as quoted in Rivonia Unmasked (1965) by Strydom Lautz, p. 108; also in ‪Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Nelson Mandela : An Ecological Study‬ (2002), by J. C. Buthelezi, p. 172”

“There are thousands of people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non”

“La mayor de las artes es la de gobernar.”

“El poder es mi amante. He trabajado demasiado para conquistarlo.”

“La mejor manera de mantener la palabra es no darla.”

“El valor es como el amor: necesita esperanza para alimentarse.”

“When I was a student in the 1950s, I read Husserl, Sartre, Merleau”

“I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto”

“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. My field is the history of thought. Man is a thinking being. Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault”

“Friendship as a Way of Life,”

“Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual”

“Dits et Écrits 1954”

“Marxism exists in nineteenth”

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write. The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972), tr. A. M. Sheridan Smith”

“[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti”

“We should admit rather that power produces knowledge (and not simply by encouraging it because it serves power or by applying it because it is useful); that power and knowledge directly imply one another. Michel Foucault, quoted in Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee”

“and keep men's minds centered on”

“He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword.”

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church”

“disturbing the peace”

“There lived a race of people a black people, ‘fleecy locks and black complexion’, a people who had the moral courage to stand up for their rights. And thereby they injected a new meaning into the veins of history and of civilization.”

“Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love , love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith . There is another side called justice . And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”

“justice runs down like water , and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

“We are here, we are here this evening because we're tired now. And I want to say that we are not here advocating violence. We have never done that. I want it to be known throughout Montgomery and throughout this nation that we are Christian people. We believe in the Christian religion. We believe in the teachings of Jesus . The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all. Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”

“We, the disinherited of this land , we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality . Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”

“You know my friends , there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair . There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November . There comes a time. Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”

“One of the effects of the rapid spread of higher education has been to equip people to criticise and question almost everything. Some of them seem to have stopped there instead of going on to the next stage which is to arrive at new beliefs or to reaffirm old ones. You will perhaps remember seeing in the press the report that the student leader Daniel Cohn”

“The...philosophical reason for which we are against nationalisation and for private enterprise is because we believe that economic progress comes from the inventiveness, ability, determination and the pioneering spirit of extraordinary men and women. If they cannot exercise that spirit here, they will go away to another free enterprise country which will then make more economic progress than we do. We ought, in fact, to be encouraging small firms and small companies, because the extent to which innovation comes through these companies is tremendous. Speech to Conservative Party Conference”

“Our freedoms depended on our having independence , independence in the wage packet, and independence of the Government...If you rely always on a Government for your wage packet, then the source of your independence to fight that Government has gone...Already one person in four works in the public sector. This is more than enough, and we must stop the encroachment from going any further. Speech to Conservative Party Conference”

“You shall not take our money before you have redressed our grievances”

“In politics , if you want anything said, ask a man ; if you want anything done, ask a woman . Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, delivered at the Royal Albert Hall (May 20, 1965) ; as quoted in Why Women Should Rule the World , HarperCollins (2008), Dee Dee Myers, p. 227 : ISBN 0061140406 , 9780061140402 . The Margaret Thatcher Foundation gives the following additional information : MT spoke on the theme ‘Woman”

“In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia . Speech to Finchley Conservatives”

“Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism , which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain therefore must be strong, strong in arms, and strong in faith in her own way of life. The greatest hope for peace lies in friendship and co”

“It was not a Government that built up the skill and craft of this country...It was private individuals who patiently persevered, building up their businesses bit by bit...Their success provided employment for others and greatly benefited the community as a whole. This was the spirit that made England great and can restore her once again. Do you want it to perish for a soul”

“Don't be scared of the high language of economists and Cabinet ministers, but think of politics at our own household level. After all, women live in contact with food supplies, housing shortages, and the ever”

“[Thatcher] began by asking what benefits ordinary people had received after 3½ years of Socialism . The Government should do what any good housewife would do if money was short”

“Where is the black man's Government?”

“I read "Up From Slavery," by Booker T. Washington, and then my doom”

“Indeed Haile Selassie has proved the incompetence of the Negro for political authority, but thank God there are Negroes who realise that Haile Selassie did not represent the truest qualities of the Negro race. How could he, when he wanted to play white? How could he, when he surrounded himself with white influence? How could he, when in a modern world, and in a progressive civilization, he preferred a slave State of black men than a free democratic country where the black citizens could rise to the same opportunities as white citizens in their democracies?”

“The Failure of Haile Selassie as Emperor”

“If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started. Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey: or, Africa for the Africans‎ (Routledge, 1967), P. 10. ISBN 0714611433 .”

“The Work That Has Been Done”

“We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism. 1937 interview reported by Joel A. Rogers, "Marcus Garvey," in Negroes of New York series, New York Writers Program, 1939, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.”

“Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. Reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 84. ISBN 0312307446 .”

“Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country… The philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey or Africa for the Africans (Majority Press, 1986 ed.), p. 163. ISBN 0912469242 .”

“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life. First Message to the Negroes of the World from Atlanta Prison" (10 February 1925).”

“这是不对的，因为天不止一个井大。如果它说：”

“Children are the masters of the new society . Decree Regarding Marriage”

“Divide our forces to arouse the masses, concentrate our forces to deal with the enemy.”

“A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire”

“这就是说，现在虽只有一点小小的力量，但是它的发展会是很快的。它在中国的环境里不仅是具备了发展的可能性，简直是具备了发展的必然性，这在五卅运动及其以后的大革命运动已经得了充分的证明。我们看事情必须要看它的实质，而把它的现象只看作入门的向导，一进了门就要抓住它的实质，这才是可靠的科学的分析方法。 The subjective forces of the revolution have indeed been greatly weakened since the defeat of the revolution in 1927. The remaining forces are very small and those comrades who judge by appearances alone naturally feel pessimistic. But if we judge by essentials, it is quite another story. Here we can apply the old Chinese saying,”

“China is vague and immense where the nine rivers pour. The horizon is a deep line threading north and south. Blue haze and rain. Hills like a snake or tortoise guard the river. The yellow crane is gone. Where? Now this tower and region are for the wanderer. 1drink wine to the bubbling water”

“茫茫九派流中国，沉沉一线穿南北。烟雨莽苍苍，龟蛇锁大江。黄鹤知何去？剩有游人处。把酒酹滔滔，心潮逐浪高！ Wide, wide flow the nine streams through the land, Dark, dark threads the line from south to north. Blurred in the thick haze of the misty rain Tortoise and Snake hold the great river locked. The yellow crane is gone, who knows whither? Only this tower remains a haunt for visitors. I pledge my wine to the surging torrent, The tide of my heart swells with the waves. Informal Translation”

“I stand alone in cold autumn. The River Xiang goes north around the promontory of Orange Island. I see the thousand mountains gone red and rows of stained forests. The great river is glassy jade swarming with one hundred boats. Eagles flash over clouds and fish float near the clear bottom. In the freezing air a million creatures compete for freedom. In this immensity I ask the huge greenblue earth, who is master of nature? translated by Willis Barnstone”

“独立寒秋，湘江北去，橘子洲头。看万山红遍，层林尽染；漫江碧透，百舸争流。鹰击长空，鱼翔浅底，万类霜天竞自由。怅寥廓，问苍茫大地，谁主沉浮？ Alone I stand in the autumn cold On the tip of Orange Island, Xiang flowing northward; I see a thousand hills crimsoned through By their serried woods deep”

“，真是又敏捷又爽快，洋大人打一个屁都是好的”

“They [America] don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa preaches and practices the same thing. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. Oxford Union Debate”

“Malcolm X Lays Harlem Riot To ‘Scare Tactics’ of Police”

“We are African, and we happened to be in America. We're not American. We are people who formerly were Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America. Our forefathers weren't the Pilgrims . We didn't land on Plymouth Rock . The rock was landed on us. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about today. Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro”

“There can be no black”

“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there. TV interview after 90”

“this is a moral issue.”

“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”

“Malcolm X Scores U.S. and Kennedy”

“Malcolm X Scores Kennedy on Racial Policy: Says He Is 'Wrong Because His Motivation Is Wrong': Head of Black Muslim Group Cites Birmingham Crisis”

“Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled antisemite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti”

“We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these. Introduction to the publication of Tolstoy's A Letter to a Hindu , Indian opinion , 25 December,”

“Leo Tolstoy 's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering. He admits of no exception to whittle down this great and divine law of love. He applies it to all the problems that trouble mankind. Introduction to the publication of Tolstoy's A Letter to a Hindu , Indian opinion , 25 December,”

“My Experience in Gaol”

“A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa . Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kafir. During his time in South Africa from The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi , Government of India (CWMG), Vol I, p. 150”

“You say that the magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory because it would enable a person , however unclean, to travel by a tram, and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so. But the magistrate's decision is quite different. The Court declared that the Kaffirs have no legal right to travel by tram. And according to tram regulations, those in an unclean dress or in a drunken state are prohibited from boarding a tram. Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians or coloured people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trams. Comments on a court case in The Indian Opinion”

“In this instance of the fire”

“Why, of all places in Johannesburg , the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen. Letter to Dr. Porter, Medical Officer of Health for Johannesburg (15 February 1905); later published in The Indian Opinion .”

“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans , who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness. Address given in Bombay (26 September 1896), Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi , Vol. 1, p. 410 (Electronic Book), New Delhi, Publications Division Government of India, 1999, 98 volumes.”

“Times of Natal , October 26, 1894, in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi , vol. 1, pp. 166”

“The Indians do not regret that capable natives can exercise the franchise. They would regret if it were otherwise. They, however, assert that they too, if capable, should have the right. You, in your wisdom , would not allow the Indian or the native the precious privilege under any circumstances, because they have a dark skin .”

“Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery . … Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery . Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonisation [2] , 1964”

“We know that the traditional African society was founded on principles of egalitarianism . In its actual workings, however, it had various shortcomings. Its humanist impulse, nevertheless, is something that continues to urge us towards our all”

“Speech delivered by Osagyefo the President at the Laying of the Foundation Stone of Ghana's Atomic Reactor at Kwabenya on 25th November, 1964”

“To the true African journalist, his newspaper is a collective organizer, a collective instrument of mobilization and a collective educator”

“We cannot tell our peoples that material benefits in growth and modern progress are not for them. If we do, they will throw us out and seek other leaders who promise more … We have to modernize. Either we shall do so with the interest and support of the West or we shall be compelled to turn elsewhere. This is not a warning or a threat, but a straight statement of political reality. Quoted in Canadian Institute of International Affairs International Journal , Volumes 13”

“Just as in the days of the Egyptians , so today God had ordained that certain among the African race should journey westwards to equip themselves with knowledge and experience for the day when they would be called upon to return to their motherland and to use the learning they had acquired to help improve the lot of their brethren. ...I had not realized at the time that I would contribute so much towards the fulfillment of this prophecy. The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957). As quoted by George P. Hagan in Nkrumah's Leadership Style”

“Together as one*”

“We face neither East nor West: we face forward.”

“Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society. The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957), p. x.”

“For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non”

“History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. The Holy Family , Ch. VI (1845).”

“The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia. Marx”

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge”

“It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair”

“And your education ! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.”

“The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. As quoted in the Communist Manifesto (1848) p. 7”

“The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. As quoted in The Communist Manifesto (1848), p.2”

“Les Cahiers d'études de Karl Marx (1840”

“With disdain I will throw my gauntlet”

“Thus heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well. My soul, once true to God , is chosen for hell . “The Pale Maiden” (1837) ballad”

“Experience is the teacher of all things.”

“Men willingly believe what they wish to be true.”

“The die is cast.”

“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”

“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“Alea iacta est.”

“Veni, vidi, vici.”

“La vida es demasiado corta para aprender todo de la experiencia.”

“El hombre sabio es el que se adelanta a los acontecimientos.”

“Nadie es tan valiente que no se asuste ante lo inesperado.”

“La fortuna favorece a los audaces.”

“La experiencia es la maestra de todas las cosas.”

“Los cobardes mueren muchas veces antes de su muerte; los valientes nunca prueban la muerte sino una vez.”

“Los hombres creen voluntariamente lo que desean que sea verdad.”

“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. Dedication of the Statue of Liberty”

“Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it. Henry Ward Beecher”

“A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men. A Glance at the North American's Soul Today”

“To beautify life is to give it an object. On Oscar Wilde”

“A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. On Oscar Wilde”

“Oh, what company good poets are! Longfellow”

“Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation! Amor”

“Life on earth is a hand”

“La justicia es la reina de las virtudes republicanas.”

“El poder se conserva por los mismos medios que se adquiere.”

“Los verdaderos amigos son aquellos que vienen a compartir nuestra desgracia.”

“No hay libertad sin orden, ni orden sin libertad.”

“La libertad es el derecho que todo hombre tiene a ser honrado y a pensar con dignidad.”

“El general que no sabe vencer, debe saber esperar.”

“La biblioteca es el mejor de los arsenales.”

“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. On Liberty”

“There are but few points in which the English, as a people, are entitled to the moral pre”

“That power should be exercised over any portion of mankind without any obligation of consulting them, is only tolerable while they are in an infantine, or a semi”

“The possession and the exercise of political, and among others of electoral, rights, is one of the chief instruments both of moral and of intellectual training for the popular mind; and all governments must be regarded as extremely imperfect, until every one who is required to obey the laws, has a voice, or the prospect of a voice, in their enactment and administration. Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform (1859), p. 22”

“Granted that any practice causes more pain to animals than it gives pleasure to man; is that practice moral or immoral? And if, exactly in proportion as human beings raise their heads out of the slough of selfishness, they do not with one voice answer 'immoral,' let the morality of the principle of utility be for ever condemned. Dr. Whewell on Moral Philosophy (1852), in Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical , vol. 2, London: John W. Parker and son, 1859, p. 485”

“A Turk thinks, or used to think (for even Turks are wiser now”

“All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for true, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. “Coleridge”. London and Westminster Review.”

“The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. ¶ The very corner”

“The remedies for all our diseases will be discovered long after we are dead; and the world will be made a fit place to live in, after the death of most of those by whose exertions it will have been made so. It is to be hoped that those who live in those days will look back with sympathy to their known and unknown benefactors. Diary, April 15, 1854, in The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill , Toronto, 1988, vol. 27, p. 668”

“The Spirit of the Age, I”

“For wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer Justice, it is still violence and injury, however colour'd with the Name, Pretences, or Forms of Law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, War is made upon the Sufferers, who having no appeal on Earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such Cases, an appeal to Heaven. Two Treatises of Government. The Second Treatise. Chapter 3: The State of War, §20 p. 281 books.google”

“Unknown text by John Locke reveals roots of 'foundational democratic ideas'”

“Discourse of Port de Set with P. & Mr. [blank] at Petit Paris, & the teaching biding to cheat the Hugenots: Nulla fides servanda cum Hereticis, nisi satis validi sunt ad se defendendos [faith need not be kept with heretics]. Journal entry (25 January 1676), quoted in John Lough (ed.), Locke's Travels in France 1675”

“Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.”

“Hand Book : Caution and Counsels”

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world , and the seed”

“The good King of France desires only that you would take his word and let him be quiet till he has got the West Indies into his hands and his grandson well established in Spain, and then you may be sure you shall be as safe as he will let you be in your religion, property and trade, to all which who can be such an infidel as not to believe him a great friend? Letter to Peter King (5 April 1701), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 452”

“But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression . A Letter Concerning Toleration”

“Wit and good nature meeting in a fair young lady as they do in you make the best resemblance of an angel that we know; and he that is blessed with the conversation and friendship of a person so extraordinary enjoys all that remains of paradise in this world. Letter to Mary Clarke (7 May 1682), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 221”

“The three great things that govern mankind are reason, passion and superstition. The first governs a few, the two last share the bulk of mankind and possess them in their turns. But superstition most powerfully produces the greatest mischief. Journal entry (16 May 1681), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 200”

“The way to get along,”

“Senators , we hear, must be politicians”

“Mr. President, Senate Joint Resolution 31, concerning which there has been little, if any, public interest or knowledge, constitutes one of the most far”

“In the Chinese language , the word " crisis " is composed of two characters, one representing danger and the other, opportunity . Remarks at the United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana (12 April 1959) ; Box 902, Senate Speech Files, Pre”

“Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past”

“If more politicians knew poetry , and more poets knew politics , I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live. Remarks at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (14 June 1956) ; Box 895, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre”

“Regarding the Republican Party : They follow the Hitler line”

“Where in the hell have you guys been? I've been at this bus stop for a whole week now." Kennedy upon being rescued.”

“11 ALIVE NATIVE KNOWS POSIT & REEF NAURU ISLAND KENNEDY”

“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. Undated Letter to a Navy friend ; also mentioned by William Safire in his "On Language" article "Warrior" in the New York Times rubric Magazines (26 August 2007) ; also in A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 88”

“Julie, or The New Heloise (English), Part Six, Letter VII Response, pg 560”

“Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (French), Sixième partie, Lettre VII Réponse”

“Chère amie, ne savez”

“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,”

“A country cannot subsist well without liberty , nor liberty without virtue . As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 301.”

“An honest man nearly always thinks justly. As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 277.”

“English translation as quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 2.”

“L'accent est l'âme du discours. Accent is the soul of language ; it gives to it both feeling and truth.”

“All that time is lost which might be better employed. As quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use: Taken Chiefly from the Latin and French, but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages, translated into English (1809) by David Evans Macdonnel”

“Let's go dance under the elms: Step lively, young lassies. Let's go dance under the elms: Gallants, take up your pipes. Le devin du village”

“Harriet Tubman never said this”

“but offers no citation. No source from earlier than 1993 is known. Quoted in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah, p. 299. Tubman specialists like Jean H. Humez and Kate Clifford Larson deem this one completely spurious. See”

“The phrase " Liberty or Death " is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.”

“Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! Modernized rendition: Oh, Lord! You've been with me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!”

“I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty”

“Modernized rendition: I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”

“I looked at my hands , to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees , and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven . On realizing that she had passed out of the slavery states into the northern states”

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say”

“I can't die but once. As quoted in The Underground Railroad (1987) by Charles L. Blockson”

“I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'. As quoted in Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1971), by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, pp. 14”

“Martin Heidegger at Eighty,”

“I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world ... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi . Speaking of her book The Human Condition , as quoted in Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (2004) by Elisabeth Young”

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. As quoted in The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1989) edited by Robert Andrews, p. 114”

“The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good. The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking”

“The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good? The good is no longer even being measured. Interview with French writer Roger Errera in New York Review of Books”

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. The New Yorker”

“Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. Men in Dark Times”

“Niemand hat das Recht zu gehorchen.”

“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. On Revolution (1963), ch. 2”

“In politics , love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. All the characteristics you stress in the Negro people: their beauty, their capacity for joy, their warmth, and their humanity, are well”

“To expect … the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is. Letter to the President of Congress”

“Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country. Letter to Benedict Arnold”

“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. George Washington to New York Legislature”

“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. Washington's formal acceptance of command of the Army (16 June 1775), quoted in The Writings of George Washington : Life of Washington (1837) edited by Jared Sparks, p. 141”

“As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. Acceptance speech after being "elected" by the Continental Congress as commander of the yet”

“Unhappy it is though to reflect, that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed in a Brother's breast, and that, the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice? Letter to Mr. George William Fairfax (31 May 1775) George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress”

“The General is sorry to be informed”

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments”

“Tis true, I profess myself a Votary to Love”

“Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. Letter to Governor Dinwiddie”

“I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle”

“There is a geographical element in all belief”

“It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith”

“Think of life as it really is, think of the details of life; and then think that there is no meaning in it, no purpose, no goal except the grave. Surely only fools or self”

“Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to time. Review of Tropic of Cancer , in New English Weekly”

“The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920”

“As to a pseudonym, a name I always use when tramping etc is P. S. Burton, but if you don't think this sounds a probable kind of name, what about Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, H. Lewis Allways. I rather favour George Orwell. Letter to Leonard Moore”

“In England, a century of strong government has developed what O. Henry called the stern and rugged fear of the police to a point where any public protest seems an indecency. But in France everyone can remember a certain amount of civil disturbance, and even the workmen in the bistros talk of la revolution”

“And once, in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path. It is curious, but till that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive. All the organs of his body were working”

“This means no more than vae victis”

“The Genesis of the New Deal, 1928”

“I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peacetime in all American history”

“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made. Speech made on the campaign trail in Portland, Oregon”

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois”

“The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. Franklin D. Roosevelt , radio address (March 2, 1930); reported in Public Papers of Governor Roosevelt (1930), p. 710.”

“During this Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby, and forget his troubles. during the Great Depression regarding Shirley Temple cited 16 December 2024 here on BBC article by Aine Quinn”

“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation , which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. Speech at the People's Forum in Troy, New York”

“I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm . Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153”

“F.D.R. : His Personal Letters, Early Years (2005), edited by Elliott Roosevelt , p. 6]”

“) who had been ill in her room at Hyde Park. She later supplied the date”

“A revolution is not a trail of roses .... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past . Speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the revolution”

“The first duty of the revolutionaries is to tell the truth. Fooling the people, promoting illusions, always brings the worst consequences , and I believe that the people should be warned against excessive optimism. How did the Red Army win the war? By telling the truth. How did the dictatorship lose the war? By deceiving the soldiers. Camp Columbia, Havana (Jan. 8th, 1959), Fidel Castro Reader , pp. 133”

“I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers. Resignation announcement”

“The American people, I think, is good people. Yes, they are”

“Men do not shape destiny . Destiny produces the man for the hour. I Won't Be a Dictator”

“I am not a dictator , and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun . I Won't Be a Dictator , interview with Ruth Lloyd (January 1959), printed in The Spokesman”

“Weapons for what? ( ¿Armas, para qué? ) To fight against whom? Against the revolutionary government, that has the support of the whole people? ... Weapons for what? Hiding weapons for what? To blackmail the President of the Republic? To threaten to break the peace here? To create organizations of gangsters ? Is it that we are going to return to gangsterism? Is it that we will return to daily shootouts in the capital? Weapons for what? Speech in Havana”

“The 26th of July Movement is not a tendency within the party, it is the revolutionary apparatus of Chibas's organization, a grass”

“I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self”

“The first time I went into the place I was horrified to see little girls seven and eight years old on their knees scrubbing the cold stones of the long corridors ... bronchitis was epidemic among them most of the time ... I found that there were pregnant women in that workhouse, scrubbing floors, doing the hardest kind of work, almost until their babies came into the world ... Of course the babies are very badly protected ... These poor, unprotected mothers and their babies I am sure were potent factors in my education as a militant.”

“It was a time of tremendous unrest, of labour agitations, of strikes and lockouts. It was a time also when a most stupid reactionary spirit seemed to take possession of the Government and the authorities. The Salvation Army , the Socialists, the trade”

“The following year (1886) found us living in London, and, as usual, interesting ourselves with labour matters and other social movements. This year was memorable for a great strike of women working in the Bryant and May match factories. I threw myself into this strike with enthusiasm, working with the girls and with some women of prominence, among these the celebrated Mrs. Annie Besant. The strike was a successful one, the girls winning substantial improvements in their working conditions.”

“What a pity she wasn't born a lad.”

“making home attractive”

“The rest of the story reveals one of those ghastly blunders which justice not infrequently makes. Although the shooting was done without any intent to kill, the men were tried for murder and three of them were found guilty and hanged.... I was transfixed with horror, and over me there swept the sudden conviction that that hanging was a mistake”

“Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin , was so great a favourite with my mother that she used it continually as a source of bedtime stories for our fascinated ears. Those stories, told almost fifty years ago, are as fresh in my mind to”

“One of my earliest recollections is of a great bazaar which was held in my native city of Manchester, the object of the bazaar being to raise money to relieve the poverty of the newly emancipated negro slaves in the United States.... Young as I was”

“Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.”

“The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in Europe were being mobilised for savage, unsparing, barbarous warfare”

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”

“The queen of Scots is this day lighter of a fair son, and I am but a barren stock.”

“All my possessions for a moment of time.”

“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”

“Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.”

“A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.”

“The past cannot be cured.”

“There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be a marvel in a man learning to hold his tongue.”

“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.”

“To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.”

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. As quoted in Eleanor : The Years Alone (1972) by Joseph P. Lash”

“In Defense of Curiosity”

“good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.' from”

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix”

“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times”

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. The New York Times (1960), as cited in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 156”

“It isn't enough to talk about peace . One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Voice of America broadcast”

“Understanding is a two”

“damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”

“Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it! In a letter to Lorena Hickok, March 7, 1933”

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. As quoted in Wisconsin Congregational Church Life , Vol. 69”

“A grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the other virtues. As quoted in Great Thoughts from Latin Authors (1884), by Craufurd Tait Ramage, p. 32”

“Nothing is more to be esteemed than being and appearing grateful. For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.”

“Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit. Almost no one dances sober, unless he is insane. Pro Murena”

“Indeed rhetoricians are permitted to lie about historical matters so they can speak more subtly.”

“since our leading men think themselves in a seventh heaven, if there are bearded mullets in their fish”

“They are such fools that they seem to expect that, though the Republic is lost, their fish”

“As for me, I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars.”

“On Duties (De Officiis) 1.33”

“We should never take pleasure in causing pain to others, even to those who have wronged us, but rather strive to do good to all.”

“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel! As quoted in An American Savage (2003) by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144”

“Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. As quoted in Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs, Volume 1 (2009) by Iam A. Freeman”

“Silence is argument carried out by other means. As quoted in Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions (2005) by Earl Ernest Guile”

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January”

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves. Statement in Mexico (1958); as quoted in Kaplan AP World History 2005 (2004) edited by the Kaplan staff, p. 240”

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36”

“Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. As quoted in Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (2010) by John Lee Anderson, p. 178”

“In order to know about the illnesses of society , you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer. As quoted in Testimonies About Che (2006) by Marta Rojas, p. 85”

“I don't think you and I are very closely related, however, if you are capable of trembling with indignation each time that an injustice is committed anywhere in the world, we are comrades , and that is more important. Letter to María Rosario Guevara, 20 February 1964. Quoted in Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution (1971) by K. S. Karol”

“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people. As quoted in Becoming Che : Guevara's Second and Final Trip through Latin America (2005) by Carlos "Calica" Ferrer, as translated by Sarah L. Smith (2006), p. 170”

“Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.”

“We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.”

“We can't be free ourselves if we can't free our women.”

“History will judge societies and governments”

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to make all people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves... The basis for peace is respecting all creatures... That's the basis, the beginning for peace. ...We know we cannot defend or be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them”

“We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess”

“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do. As quoted in Lumen (1986) by G. J. Caton, p. 133”

“You are here to discuss a matter which is of extreme importance to yourselves, your families and your community, so let's get to the subject at hand. A hundred and fifty”

“Personal motto later officially used by the United Farm Workers”

“Public Disputes warm the Imagination, whet the Industry, and strengthen the natural Abilities.”

“Remember, that credit is money. If a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me interest, or so much as I can make of it during that time. This amounts to a considerable sum where a man has good and large credit, and makes good use of it.”

“Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress”

“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. September 1741. “Poor Richard, 1741,” Founders Online , National Archives, accessed 27 May 2020. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin , vol. 2, January 1, 1735, through December 31, 1744 , ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, pp. 292”

“On Freedom of Speech and the Press”

“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. "On True Happiness", Pennsylvania Gazette (20 November 1735).”

“Apology for Printers”

“Transcript of Benjamin Franklin, Epitaph”

“Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion”

“What! bring ourselves down to an Equality with the Beasts of the Field! with the meanest part of the Creation ! 'Tis insufferable!”

“Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein . He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.… The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors…and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. Remarks Against Going to War with Iraq (2 October 2002).”

“I Actually Believe In Redistribution”

“A Newcomer to the Business of Politics has Seen Enough to Reach Some Conclusions About Restoring Voters' Trust”

“Race and Rights Rhetoric”

“Well, things are hunky”

“No Cushy Post for this Pioneer Harvard Law Review Chief Plans to Work in Inner City”

“Rachel Maddow Asks Why Both Presidents George Bush ‘Hate America’ Like Barack Obama”

“Harvard Student Tackles Racism At Core”

“all people are to be treated the same”

“Barack Obama told ex, 'I make love to men daily, but in the imagination,' letter shows”

“He who does not know how to dissimulate, knows not how to reign.”

“We must be friends or enemies. Which will it be?”

“Practice is the best of all instructors.”

“Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.”

“Practice is the master of all things.”

“What is done well enough is done quickly enough.”

“Make haste slowly.”

“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”

“La justicia es el fundamento de todo gobierno.”

“Un imperio se mantiene con valor, se pierde por la arrogancia.”

“El respeto por las leyes construye imperios duraderos.”

“La juventud debe ser guiada, no castigada.”

“Quien no sabe disimular, no sabe reinar.”

“�He representado bien mi papel? Entonces aplaudid mientras salgo.”

“La pr�ctica es la maestra de todas las cosas.”

“Lo que se hace suficientemente bien, se hace bastante r�pido.”

“Apres�rate lentamente.”

“Recib� una Roma de ladrillos y la dej� de m�rmol.”

“El respeto a la ley es la base de la libertad.”

“La democracia es el gobierno del pueblo, por el pueblo y para el pueblo.”

“La ley debe ser igual para todos.”

“La patria es la suma de todos los sacrificios.”

“In the end, when it is over, all that matters is what you have done.”

“How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.”

“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”

“There are no more worlds to conquer.”

“I would rather live a short life of glory than a long life of obscurity.”

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”

“Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.”

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

“Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers . As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo”

“Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow”

“If I were Alexander, I would accept the terms”

“Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you. Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius III of Persia in response to a truce plea, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian ; translated as Anabasis of Alexander by P. A. Brunt, for the "Loeb Edition" Book II 14, 4”

“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service”

“I do not steal victory. Reply to the suggestion by Parmenion , before the Battle of Gaugamela , that he attack the Persian camp during the night, reported in Life of Alexander by Plutarch , as quoted in A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great (1900) by John Bagnell Bury”

“On the Fortune of Alexander”

“Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions . Addressing the dead Hellenes (the Athenean and Thebean Greeks) of the Battle of Chaeronea , as quoted in Historiae Alexandri Magni by Quintus Curtius Rufus”

“Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar”

“What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do. Statement upon seeing Bucephalas being led away as useless and beyond training, as quoted in Lives by Plutarch , as translated by Arthur Hugh Clough”

“La fortuna favorece a los audaces.”

“Qué grandes son los peligros que enfrento para ganar un buen nombre.”

“Recordad que de la conducta de cada uno depende el destino de todos.”

“Prefiero vivir una vida corta de gloria que una vida larga en la oscuridad.”

“Ahora le basta una tumba a quien el mundo entero no le bastaba.”

“El cielo no puede soportar dos soles, ni la tierra dos amos.”

“No hay nada imposible para quien lo intenta.”

“Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.”

“I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838) , Collected Works, vol. 1. p. 119”

“Whatever Spiteful fools may Say”

“I am mighty near one. When asked if he was an abolitionist”

“Lincoln's First Reported Speech”

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

“Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read Manuscript poem, as a teenager (ca. 1824”

“Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good but God knows When Manuscript poem, as a teenager (ca. 1824”