Naval Officer

🇺🇸Robert A. Heinlein

Literature

1907–1988

"I used to wonder what it was like to be rich. Now I am and it turns out to be mostly headaches."

🇬🇧Jimmy Carter

Politics

1965–2024

"My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm not running for president."

🇺🇸Ross Perot

Business

1930–2019

"Few people in this country have been able to live the American Dream to the extent that I have … Neither political party has effectively addressed the issues that concern the American people."

🇺🇸George H. W. Bush

Politics

1924–2018

"I think there's a Trojan horse lurking in the weeds, ready to pull a fast one on the American people, and I simply am not going to let that happen."

🇬🇧Prince Philip

Military

1921–2021

"There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing—ever more quickly—and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all."

🇫🇷Georges Hébert

Philosophy

1875–1957

"Resistance to cold is as part of physical education as the gymnastic exercises. It is why the bare torso must be the rule all the time when the atmospheric conditions are not too unfavorable."

Horatio Nelson

Military

1758–1805

":In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."

🇬🇧John Kerry

Politics

b. 1943

"Yesterday I was in President Bush's home state of Texas. He no longer lives there. Now he lives in the state of denial."

🇺🇸Henry Fonda

Entertainment

1905–1982

"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."

🇺🇸John Paul Stevens

Law

1920–2019

"After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable."

🇩🇪Wilhelm Canaris

Military

1887–1945

"As the officer before the World War was naturally a monarchist...so it is naturally understandable today...to be a National Socialist...The Wehrmacht has become the tool of the National Socialist will for development."

🇺🇸John McCain

Politics

1936–2018

"I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live."

🇺🇸Grace Hopper

computer science

1906–1992

"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise."

🇺🇸Alan Shepard

Business

1923–1998

"The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder."

🇬🇧Robert Falcon Scott

Military

1868–1912

"Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority."

🇺🇸Harvey Milk

Politics

1930–1978

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country."

🇺🇸Ryan Zinke

Military

b. 1961

"I'm a geologist, and I don't consider myself a genius, but I'm a pretty smart guy."

🇺🇸Eric Garcetti

Politics

b. 1971

"I think I was just being myself for a moment there...Look, I think people should be kind of light about this. It's something that plenty of people have heard in their lives for sure."