(218 quotes found)
“Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years we won't stand for that, will we?”
Eddie Izzard
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
“The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust”
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
“A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade”
“One is a majority if he is right.”
“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me”
“I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it”
“If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.”
