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🇺🇸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."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom."

"Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul."

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

"If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn."

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🇺🇸Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military

1890–1969

"Guardians of Freedom – 50th Anniversary of Operation Arkansas, by ARMY.MIL"

149 quotes

🇫🇷Napoleon I of France

Politics

1769–1821

"A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination."

"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."

"The revolution cannot seek to stifle art or culture since one of the goals and fundamental aims of the revolution is to develop art and culture, precisely so that art and culture truly become the patrimony of the people."

"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."

"All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews."

"Those Chetniks up there who are now firing on us will have joined us within a year."

"Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken."

"We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data."

"So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!"

88 quotes

Anne of Great Britain

Politics

1665–1714

"I know my own heart to be entirely English."

"Please send to Australia … rain welcome party will be arranged"

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Lord Randolph Churchill

"set our eyes on the future. The political differences between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should eventually be solved step by step, and can not let these problems hand on from generation to generation."

"First, Stalin is disowned, now, little by little, it gets to prosecute socialism, the October Revolution, and in no time they will also want to prosecute Lenin and Marx."

"Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet."

"The multicultural society is an illusion of intellectuals."

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Alexander II of Russia

Politics

1818–1881

"The Assassination of Tsar Alexander II" episode of In Our Time"

"Essays on Fillmore and each member of his cabinet and First Lady"

"We have to recognize that the China challenge is a serious one. This is not something to dismiss or waive away. China is using technology for the perfection of dictatorship."

"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God."

"It becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored."

"There are some parts of Turkey where the refugees outnumber the actual residents. No country in the world would accept this and nor should they."

"Rockefeller Brothers Fund Official Web site"

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🇹🇷Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Politics

b. 1954

"There is no difference between killing a baby in its mother's stomach and killing a baby after birth."

"For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories."

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