"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Power
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"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Poverty and The Poor
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"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Humor
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"God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work."

Keller, Helen on Security
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"We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings."

Keller, Helen on Apathy
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"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."

Keller, Helen on Kings
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"I came, I saw, I conquered."

Caesar, Julius on Victory
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"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger."

Aesop on Risk
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."

Kennedy, John F. on Politicians and Politics
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"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. "

Kennedy, John F. on Uncategorised
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"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."

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"I trust no one, not even myself. "

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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."

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"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."

Stalin, Joseph on Election
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"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!"

Reagan, Ronald on Injustice
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"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

Reagan, Ronald on Politicians and Politics
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"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

Reagan, Ronald on Responsibility
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"Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in."

Reagan, Ronald on Status Quo
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"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans."

Reagan, Ronald on Character
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"Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity."

Kennedy, John F. on Opportunity
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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

Kennedy, John F. on Enemies
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"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."

Stalin, Joseph on Statistics
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"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."

Stalin, Joseph on Communism and Socialism
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"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

Capone, Al on Power
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"Adults are obsolete children."

Seuss, Dr. on Children
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Malcolm X on Adversity
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"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."

Malcolm X on Greed
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"Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power."

Malcolm X on Power
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Acceptance
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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Evil
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"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Freedom
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"If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?"

Nixon, Richard M. on America
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"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount."

Churchill, Winston on Dictators and Dictatorship
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"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Churchill, Winston on Dogs
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on Animals
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"Who says I'm not under the special protection of God?"

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"I made all my generals out of mud."

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"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

Freud, Sigmund on America
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"History shows that there are no invincible armies."

Stalin, Joseph on Army and Navy
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