Idi Amin

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.

Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

This body of mine is my teacher. This heart of mine, my guide. My dear head struggles to make sense of it all whilst my hands gently remind me to trust and let go.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.