Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Werner Herzog

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

W. G. Sebald

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

William Cobbett

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

Walt Kelly

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Walt Whitman

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

Walt Whitman

O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

Walt Whitman

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Richie Furay

I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

Jeffrey Archer

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

Rebecca West

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Saul Alinsky

History is a relay of revolutions.

William Randolph Hearst

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

Vladimir Nabokov

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Octavio Paz

It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.

Mary Ritter Beard

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.

Leon Trotsky

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

Leon Trotsky

What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.