And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

I supported Donald Trump.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

A word after a word after a word is power.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.