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Trotsky, Leon
1879–1940
1879–1940
1
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal. The bourgeoisie in the long run only changed the form of the pack.
You [the Mensheviks] are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on — into the dustbin of history!
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Diary in Exile
(1959) 8 May 1935
Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal. The bourgeoisie in the long run only changed the form of the pack.
History of the Russian Revolution
(1933) vol. 3, ch. 1
You [the Mensheviks] are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on — into the dustbin of history!
History of the Russian Revolution
(1933) vol. 3, ch. 10.
Trudeau, Pierre
1919–
1919–
1
The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
on relations between Canada and the US
The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
interview, Ottawa, 22 December 1967
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
on relations between Canada and the US
speech at National Press Club, Washington D. C., 25 March 1969
Truman, Harry S.
1884–1972
1884–1972
1
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.
A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
The buck stops here.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
associated with Truman, but attributed by him to Harry Vaughan, his "military jester"; in
Time
28 April 1952
I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.
in
Look
3 April 1956
A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
in
New York World Telegram and Sun
12 April 1958
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
in
Observer
13 April 1958
The buck stops here.
unattributed motto on Truman's desk
Trump, Donald
1946–
1946–
1
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz
The Art of the Deal
(1987)
Truth, Sojourner
c.
1797–1883
c.
1797–1883
1
That man…says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches…Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and aren't I a woman?…I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me—and aren't I a woman?
That man…says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches…Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and aren't I a woman?…I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me—and aren't I a woman?
speech at Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851
Tuchman, Barbara W.
1912–89
1912–89
1
For one August in its history Paris was French—and silent.
For one August in its history Paris was French—and silent.
August 1914
(1962) ch. 20
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