90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Colin Powell
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
James K. Polk
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
William Manchester
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Dante Alighieri
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Edward Kennedy
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse-Tung
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Francois Mitterrand
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de Tocqueville
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Arnold J. Toynbee
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert Hoover
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Richard M. Nixon
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
Oliver North
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
John Foster Dulles
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
Lyndon B. Johnson
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Hugo Black
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard M. Nixon
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Evita Peron
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
Libraries are not made, they grow.
Augustine Birrell
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
William O. Douglas
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Kofi Annan
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
