Any man who seeks to deny equality among all his brothers betrays the spirit of the free and invites the mockery of the tyrant.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
I think you know that I believe we must be strong military, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.
John F. Kennedy
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
A democracy is the most difficult kind of government to operate. It represents the last flowering, really, of the human experience.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Mankind should put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
A police state finds it cannot command the grain to grow.
Economic grows without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
Richard Nixon
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
Ronald Reagan
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a healthy appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
None of the four wars in my life came because we were too strong. It is weakness....that invites adventurous adversaries to make mistaken judgments.
Bill Clinton
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.
Martin Luther King, Jr
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face with another problem.
Henry Kissinger
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
Benjamin Disraeli
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are for the adventurous."
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
A precedent embalms a principle.
I say that justice is truth in action.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Winston Churchill
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
When you want to kill a man it cost nothing to be polite.
Today we may say aloud before an awe-stuck world: "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.
Never give in - never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual".
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Margaret Thatcher
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Elizabeth II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Napoleon I
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a God.
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Charles De Gaulle
A state worthy of the name has no friends - only interests.
I respect those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
Fidel Castro
A revolution is not a bed of roses... a revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Vaclav Havel
It is not true that only coldhearted, cynical, arrogant, haughty or brawling persons can succeed in politics. Such people are naturally attracted by politics. In the end, however, politeness and good manners weigh more.
Adolf Hitler
The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.
The great masses of the people....will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
Benito Mussolini
War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it.
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
Mohandas K Gandhi
It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business...What is true is that honestly is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the possible
Vladimir Lenin
While the state exists there is no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no state.
Nikita Khrushchev
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Mao Tse-Tung
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly
Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
