Christopher > Christopher's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
1 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
2 He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
3 He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
4 He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
5 He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
― Groucho Marx

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
― George S. Patton Jr., The Patton principles

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
― Ronald Reagan

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
― Ronald Reagan

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

“May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”
― George S. Patton

“President Ronald Reagan, who spent World War II in Hollywood, vividly described his own role in liberating Nazi concentration camp victims. Living in the film world, he apparently confused a movie he had seen with a reality he had not. On many occasions in his Presidential campaigns, Mr. Reagan told an epic story of World War II courage and sacrifice, an inspiration for all of us. Only it never happened; it was the plot of the movie A Wing and a Prayer — that made quite an impression on me, too, when I saw it at age 9. Many other instances of this sort can be found in Reagan's public statements. It is not hard to imagine serious public dangers emerging out of instances in which political, military, scientific or religious leaders are unable to distinguish fact from vivid fiction.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”
― Mikhail S. Gorbachev

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
― Joseph Stalin

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
― Joseph Stalin

“No Senior military commander can for years on end expect his soldiers to lay down their lives for victory and then precipitate defeat by his own hand.”
― Erich von Manstein, Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill