Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‚indoctrination‘, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

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

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.