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If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
Thomas Jefferson
Law and Politics, Vice and Virtue
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
1984
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Josef Stalin
We had no use for the policy of the Gospels, "if someone slaps you, just turn the other cheek." We had shown that anyone who slapped us on our cheek would get his head kicked off.
Nikita Khrushchev
There is a homely addage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Theodore Roosevelt
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.
Benito Mussolini
If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker.
Albert Einstein
on his development of the atom bomb
If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill
Political languange ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
Nikitia Khrushchev
I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong.
Muhammed Ali
on escaping the Vietnam War draft
If I ever want to have an affair with a married man again, especially if he's president, please shoot me.
Monica Lewinsky
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--
General John Sedgwick
last words in the Civil War
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi
When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
Elaine Boosler
That men do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Unknown
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in combat.
Marine Corps saying
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto Von Bismarck
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General George Patton
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans ... unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove
Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.
Alfred E. Neuman
We should not mourn that men are dead, we should thank God that such men existed.
General George Patton
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Pastor Martin Niemoller
1945
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
V (Hugo Weaving)
V for Vendetta
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