H. G. Wells

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

Fidel Castro

"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 one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron."

Evita Peron

"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 saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge."

Theodore White

"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

"Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time."

Horace Sutton

"Is this true or only clever?"

Augustine Birrell

"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