So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

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

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Whatever final judgment awaits ‚Bush v. Gore‘ in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

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

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

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

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

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

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

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.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.