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"One of the most frequent comments I get on my channel is that Churchill quote: 'Americans always do the right thing after exhausting every other option.'"
"Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We’ve already captured five of them, one with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow. And I won’t have to send another."
"I may disapprove of what you say, but I would defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906, The Friends of Voltaire.
"Three generations of imbeciles are enough." - Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
"We have to remember those words of Benjamin Franklin—'It's a republic if you can keep it.'"
"Without terror, virtue has no power." - Robespierre
"Louie must die because the nation must live." - Robespierre
"Checks and balances prevent the decay into Anarchy." - Alexander Hamilton
"With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end." - Field Marshal Douglas Haig
"Freedom is the possession of those with courage to defend it Pericles."
"The office of president will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications." - Alexander Hamilton
"Americans will always do the right thing once they've exhausted every other option." - Winston Churchill
"Kennedy said democracy is not perfect but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in."
"Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration." - Abraham Lincoln
"One cannot resist an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"Give me liberty or give me death." That's what it took to get this country up and running.
"I think it's Newton who said that everything he's discovered has been by standing on the shoulders of giants. Look at it that way..."
"Malcolm X said in 1962 we are the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected women in America."
"It's not the end, it's not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning."
"Quantity has a quality all its own." - Josef Stalin
"Wars begin when you will but do not end when you please." - Machiavelli
"Whoever holds Alaska will hold the world." - General Billy Mitchell
"Either we all hang together or we hang separately because that's the way this is gonna work."
"Once you know, you can't look away, and you can never again say you did not know." - William Wilberforce
"When you sacrifice Liberty for security, you deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin
"He who commands the sea has command of everything. Awesome."
"We have voted for the cheapest way to prevent the occurrence of something which would be of the most terrible significance to the United States of America." - Dwight Eisenhower
"England expects that every man will do his duty."
"Speak softly, carry a big stick." - Frank Reagan
"God fights on the side with the best artillery."
"Being prepared for war is one of the best ways to preserve peace." - George Washington
"Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself." - Lincoln
"A house divided cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln
"These people are stupid. Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself." - Discovery Q
"Never let a good crisis go to waste." - Winston Churchill
"The man who dies rich dies disgraced." - Andrew Carnegie
"I found Rome of clay, I leave it to you of marble." - Augustus Caesar
"A black man had no rights that a white man was bound to respect."
"Some nations have a gift for ceremonial... We can afford to be more splendid than most nations." - Lord Robert Cecil
"We are a nation that says give us your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets." - Rockefeller
"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." - John Dalberg-Acton
"Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
"Fight them until there's no fitna." - Abdullah ibn Umar
"Every single fitna that would happen until the end of time." - Hudaifah ibn al-Yaman
"He realized that their cost wasn't worth it, stating, 'Another such victory and we shall be utterly ruined.'"
"Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon." - Baron Rothschild
"Winston Churchill famously said, 'Well, we just won the war.'"
"No matter how bad things get I Adolf Hitler have the willpower."
"People have got to know whether or not their presidents a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
"The American public deserved a better explanation." - Gerald R. Ford
"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention; its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world." - Nikola Tesla, 1919
"A nation reveals itself not only by the men and women it produces but by the men and women that it honors." - President Kennedy
"I'm gonna smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." - John F. Kennedy
"He was later recorded as saying: 'I often fought for victory, but at Munda I fought for my very existence'."
"Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered).
"One small step for man, one giant leap for the Stars." - Opie
"It's a Fox Chase, boy, as Washington says as he leads his soldiers to Victory."
"The main principal point in war is to secure plenty of provisions and to destroy the enemy by famine." - Vegetius
"Let them know the truth, and the country is safe." - Love Lincoln and the wisdom and the economy of his language.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely, madam speaker. Famous quote. There's lots of lessons people learn, and normally the lesson that you learn the most is when you cause the most pain."
"You cannot stop me, I spend 30,000 men a month." - Napoleon
"Humanity with all its fears, with all the hope of future years, is hanging breathless on thy fate." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute." - John F. Kennedy
"One small step for man, one giant step for mankind."
"Give me blood and I will give you Freedom." - Subhas Chandra Bose
"The tree of liberty must often be refreshed by the blood of tyrants and patriots."
"Whoever controls the Indian Ocean will dominate Asia, the destiny of the world will be decided on its Waters." - Alfred Thayer Mahan
"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."
"A standing military force with an overgrown executive branch will not long be safe companions to liberty." - James Madison
"If I have seen further it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
"The fact that you called the tale a leg didn't make it a little late." - Abraham Lincoln
"Churchill complained, 'I thought we'd flung a wildcat into the Alban Hills, but instead we got a whale floundering on the beach.'"
"Dying is easy, comedy is hard." - Peep noted Edmund Kean as the man who said this on his deathbed. We're not actually sure if he really did anyways.
"The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
"By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty."
"As easy as shooting turkeys." - Commander Paul D. Buie describing Hellcat actions
"I'd rather be governed by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian." - Luther
"All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes." - Donald Trump
"The proper arts of a general are judgment and prudence." - Tacitus
"Frederick Douglass: 'The ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.'"
"Samuel Adams: 'Congress should not prevent the people from keeping their arms.'"
"Any time the white man gives you anything you must remember that he will turn right around and take it back." - Fannie Lou Hamer
"Fear is our enemy, and as Roosevelt said, 'we have nothing to fear but fear itself.'"
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
"We created a republic, madam, if you can keep it."
"As Martin Luther King Jr. said, the moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice."
"A man sits down and he writes an idea: all men are created equal."
"Those who would give up Liberty for some temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety."
"When you're going through hell, just keep going." - Winston Churchill
"It is not an army we must shape and train for war; it is a nation." - President Woodrow Wilson
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You're quoting Thomas Jefferson, not the Quran."
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - Oppenheimer
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Jesus or Abraham Lincoln?
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Saz Benito Putin
"Dialogue could save the world." - Lewis Hill, 1942
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." - FDR
"Jesus lived at a time of war and said, 'Those who live by the sword die by the sword.'"
"The unity of government... is also now dear to you. It is justly so." - George Washington
"It is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your National Union to your Collective and individual happiness." - George Washington
"Never of course a common endeavor has so much been over it by so many to so few." - Churchill
"I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"All disease begins in the gut." - Hippocrates
"If this Marbury decision be sound then indeed is our Constitution a complete fellow to say which is Latin for a suicide pact." - Thomas Jefferson
"The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary." - Thomas Jefferson
"Benjamin Franklin said those who would give up essential liberty to purchase just a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"It's what Frederick Douglass said of course power concedes nothing without a demand it never did it never will."
"The oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics is an imbalance between the rich and the poor." - Plutarch
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. Never has, never will." - Congresswoman Terri Sewell
"The government of the United States has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction," quotes Alexander Hamilton, emphasizing the government's limitations.
"All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Addressing the importance of taking action against darkness.
"I could not live without champagne in Victory I deserve it in defeat I need it." - Winston Churchill
"You know, Winston Churchill once said, 'You kick somebody when they're down, that's the best time.'"
"Oppenheimer even quoted, 'I am become death.'"
"It's either going to be the United States of slavery or a free country." - Abraham Lincoln
"We must hang together or most assuredly we will hang alone." - Benjamin Franklin
"The Negro race needs colleges... but we do not need colleges so much that we can sacrifice the manhood and womanhood of our children to the thoughtlessness of the north or the prejudice of the south." - W.E.B. Du Bois
"King Louis XIV proclaimed, 'I am the state.'"
"It takes more than that to kill a bull moose." - 26th President Theodore Roosevelt
"The light has gone out of my life." - 26th President Theodore Roosevelt
"We're all going. God's will be done, not ours." - 25th President William McKinley
"My work is done." - 20th President James A. Garfield
"I hope that nobody will be distressed on my account." - 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes
"Nobody gives freedom, nobody can give you quality or justice, and the man kicks it all" - Malcolm X
"Remember Ben Franklin: 'Those that give up Liberty for security will get nor deserve neither.'"
"I considered it at once the death knell of the union." - Thomas Jefferson
"This was one small step for man but one giant leap for mankind."
"He wanted to 'Splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and Scatter it into the winds'." — John F. Kennedy
"My dear wife, you may be a widow tonight but you shall not be a coward's wife." - Alfred Meacham
"The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory." - Winston Churchill
"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm." - Hippocrates
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." - Hippocrates
"Suleiman gazed at it with awe and exclaimed, 'Oh Solomon, I have surpassed thee.'"
"They shall not pass, the famous sentence spoken during the Battle of Verdun."
"A simple message was spread through Rome proclaiming Caesar’s success: veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered."
"Better die free than live as slaves." - Henry Taylor
"Republics turn to democracy and then turn from democracy to tyrannies." - George Washington
"I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency." - Harry Truman
"We either hang together or we're going to hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin
"Give me liberty or give me death. I'm going to stick with my convictions no matter what anybody says to me."
"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government and what no government should refuse or rest on inference." - Thomas Jefferson
"The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty; the obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity." - Nelson Mandela
"The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals." - Albert Gallatin
"Courage Above All Things is the first quality of a warrior." - Quoting Carl Von Clausewitz
"Space we can recover, time never." - Napoleon
"War is hell." - Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman
"People always have the tendency to fall asleep... our task is to try to wake them up." - Vladimir Bukovsky, 1981
"Harriet Tubman said, 'I freed thousands of slaves, and I could have freed thousands more if they only knew they were slaves.'"
"A U.S private Central Bank would be the prostitution of our government for the benefit for the benefit of a few at the expense of the many." - Andrew Jackson, 1836.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - John F. Kennedy
"I have become the destroyer of worlds." - Oppenheimer
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. I suppose we all thought that one way or another."
"Dare mighty things; a quote from Theodore Roosevelt."
"Their exercises are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody exercises." - Josephus
"We shall fight on beaches, landing ground, in fields, in streets, and on the hills. We shall never surrender."
"Play the man, Mr. Ridley, and by the grace of God, this flame will light a candle that will bring light to the whole of England that can never be extinguished." - Bishop Latimer
"These voices come down to us today. Longstreet said 'not yet' yet, yet, yet."
"Patrick Henry declares, 'Give me liberty or give me death.'"
"'Last night at 11 o'clock the factories fed from the waters of this Majestic River were in full operation, and at 12 o'clock the water was suddenly shut off.'"
"Nixon personally asked me to intervene in the Vietnam War, groovy."
"The grace of the Lord Jesus rest with you. Remember my weakness in your daily prayers. Your brother unfainted, John Knox, the 7th of July 1556."
"The monument...proclaim[s]: 'London is restored in three years' time the world saw finished that which was supposed to be the work of an age.'"
"Ask not what your country can do for you, that's what you can do for your country." - Honey glaze out
Lord Nuffield said, "God help you if war comes."
"Delenda est Carthago - Carthage must be destroyed."
"Custer shouting the immortal war cry: 'Come on, you Wolverines!'"
"Martin Luther King said, 'The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.'"
"Our arrows will blot out the sun."
"John Paul Jones said, 'Give me a fast ship, I intend to sail in harm's way,' and these things took us into harm's way."
"May the Lord comfort them as they have sustained me. - Abraham Lincoln"
"With the Russians, you trust but verify."
"This too shall pass, I think didn't Jesus or somebody say that?"
"I know I have the body of but a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king."
"Bataan has fallen, but the spirit that made it stand—a beacon to all the liberty-loving peoples of the world—could not fall."
But this liberty was not free. Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty, or give me death."
"America is fine, as Abraham Lincoln said many years ago, beautiful bit of land we're really lucky to have inherited from the smarter people who came before us, it is ours to lose."
"That book, the Bible, is the rock on which our republic rests." - Andrew Jackson
"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man." - Abraham Lincoln
"Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties." - Ulysses S. Grant
"Food as medicine, you know Hippocrates said it in 340 BC."
"If I fail, it is only because I have too much pride and ambition." - Julius Caesar
"Like Winston Churchill said, this is the end of the beginning."
"What hath God wrought, a success."
"It took only a moment to cut off his head," said mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange, "and a hundred years may not give us another like it."
"I fear all we've done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
"I came out of Bataan, and I shall return."
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!"
"Millions for defense, not a cent for tribute!"
"I can't promise you six months of unprecedented victories after the war begins, but then afterward there will be nothing but a slow inevitable retreat." - Admiral Yamamoto to the Imperial War Council, October 1941.
"If that be treason make the best of it."