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🇺🇸Abraham Lincoln

Politics

1744–1786

"They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States."

"Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a numerous priesthood ‘Mullahs,’ ‘Sahibzadas,’ ‘Akhundzadas,’ ‘Fakirs,’"

480 quotes

🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

"He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."

""The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.""

"How much more than is necessary do we spend in Sleep! forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry,[Sept. 1743] and that there will be sleeping enough in the Grave,[Sept. 1741] as Poor Richard says."

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

"The conclusion [of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession'] shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one."

"I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it’s there. It’s mapped out for me."

"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."

209 quotes

Thomas More

Politics

"I die the king's faithful servant, and God's first."

25 quotes

🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."

26 quotes

🇺🇸John F. Kennedy

Politics

"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's."

"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."

"It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies."

"When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it."

"There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine."

186 quotes

🇺🇸Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics

1882–1945

"The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum"

176 quotes

🇫🇷Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics

1805–1859

"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."

"Celebrating Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda – Democracy Now! interviews Martin Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."

"To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act."

"The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together!"

"Every revolutionary party finds its chief support in the younger generation of the rising class. Political decay expresses itself in a loss of ability to attract youth."

"We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated."

"When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."

"This German Volksgemeinschaft is truly practical socialism and therefore National Socialism in the best sense of the word. Here everyone is obligated to carry his load."

"I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans — in grief, as in defiance."

"When the U.S. is an active participant in a foreign war, what comes with that is an increased responsibility to try to rescue civilians from the harm done in part by U.S. munitions and U.S. targeting."

🇦🇹Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics

b. 1947

"When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot."

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."

"No device of man can remove the tragedy from war, yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent."

"We want to have a great Brazil just like Trump wants to have a great America."

"I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up."

"Idi Amin is a splendid type and a good player … but virtually bone from the neck up, and needs things explained in words of one letter."

14 quotes

🇺🇸Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Politics

b. 1989

"I do think that we’ve been taking it too much. I think we’ve been tolerating the intolerable."

"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."

309 quotes

Notable Quotes

"Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a numerous priesthood ‘Mullahs,’ ‘Sahibzadas,’ ‘Akhundzadas,’ ‘Fakirs,’"

— Winston Churchill, b. 1940View →

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

— Thomas JeffersonView →

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

— Mahatma Gandhi, b. 1869View →

"he British workman has more to hope for from the rising tide of Tory democracy than from the dried up drain-pipe of Radicalism."

— Winston Churchill, b. 1940View →

"They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States."

— Abraham Lincoln, b. 1744View →

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