“The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
“I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“By noon it was clear that the Socialists would have a majority. At luncheon my wife said to me, It may well be a blessing in disguise. I replied, At the moment it seems quite effectively disguised.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“It is part of the Communist doctrine and drill-book, laid down by Lenin himself, that Communists should aid all movements towards the Left and help into office weak Constitutional, Radical or Socialist Governments. These they should undermine, and from their falling hands snatch absolute power, and found the Marxist State.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small State to the wolves is a fatal delusion.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“If the government is cruel, the governor’s life is not safe.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“As long as I have any choice, I will only stay in a country where political liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Half the truth is often a great lie.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“A new-born government must dazzle.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar.”
— Cleopatra (unverified)