I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

Only Americans can hurt America.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.