Joseph Stalin

We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

Music’s a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

Every society is three meals away from chaos.

Japan fended off the European invasions almost entirely. That’s why Japan is the one area of the Third World that developed. That’s striking. The one part of the Third World that wasn’t colonized is the one part that’s part of the industrialized world. That’s not by accident.

This administration is extremely unpredictable. Trump probably has no idea what he’s going to do five minutes from now, so you can’t-literally-make predictions with much confidence.

He told me was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars.I was dumbfounded. I didn’t even answer him.But that experience also taught me something.Until then, I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president.

Don’t say “the White House wants.” Buildings can’t want.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.

In fact when the press discusses [a national healthcare program] they call it “politically impossible.” Meaning the pharmaceutical companies won’t accept it, the insurance companies won’t accept it, and so on.

So, essentially, what President Trump is saying is, we’ll destroy your countries, slaughter you, impose brutal regimes, but if you try to get out, you’re not going to come here, because America is full.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

In the Soviet Union, it’s takes more courage to retreat than advance.

I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it’s literally going to cease to exist.

Israel is…seeking to expand its base of support to the East, primarily to China and India, the latter becoming a very natural ally for a number of reasons, including the drift in both societies toward ultranationalism, reactionary internal policies and hatred of Islam.