To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

No great thing is created suddenly.

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

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

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

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

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

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

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

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Too much TV hurts movies.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.