Popular Quotes Through Time

General McClellan and myself are to be photographed ... if we can be still long enough. I feel General McClellan should have no problem.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

A measure made expedient by a war is no precedent for times of peace.

If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If you don't like a Rule... Just Follow it.. Reach on the Top.. and Change the Rule

When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your OwnShadow Doesn't Follow You.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dread.

A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the future of war.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.