Strategy & Power

"How happy is the one who says, 'I am a Turk!' ('Ne mutlu Türk'üm diyene!')"

"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. (Furthermore, I hold that Carthage must be destroyed.)"

"Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? (How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?)"

"I defended the Republic when I was young; I will not desert it now that I am old."

"If anyone regards Philip as fortunate because he sees him successful, he reasons as a prudent observer; for fortune has a great share—or rather the whole share—in human affairs. But yet if I were given the choice, I should prefer the fortune of our city to his."

"Seeking truth from facts is the baseline of Marxist ideology."

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."

"When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease."

"Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos."

"Force or the threat of force can no longer and should no longer be an instrument of foreign policy."

"For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."

"The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will."

"The die is cast. Let us accept the challenge of the gods and our enemies."

"Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation, and patient work with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion."

"For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I have believed in merger and unity of the two territories."

"All power to the Soviets! No support for the Provisional Government!"

"U-turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning!"

"My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything."

"Soldiers! I am pleased with you. You have decorated your eagles with immortal glory."

"Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighbouring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. Its administration favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy."

"I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow."

"That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason."

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe... Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

"The Three Principles of the People are the principles for our national salvation."

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

"In their prosperity shall be our strength, in their contentment our security, and in their gratitude our best reward."

"A unipolar world refers to a world in which there is one master, one sovereign. And in the end this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself."

"No one will emerge as a winner in a trade war."