Q. Quotes

1. It doesn’t matter a jot if three-fourths of mankind perish! The only thing that matters is that, in the end, the remaining fourth should become communist – Lenin (1870-1924)

2. Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

3. If Karl (my son), instead of writing a lot about Capital, made a lot of Capital, it would have been much better – Henrietta Marx (19th Century)

4. All I know is that I am not a Marxist – Karl Marx (1818-1883)

5. A society is rich when material goods, including capital, are cheap and human beings dear: indeed the word “riches” has no other meaning – R. H. Tawney (1880-1962)

6. I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes – Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

7. When I was a child, my mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope “Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

8. A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong – Jimmy Carter (1924-)

9. My experience in government is that when things are noncontroversial, beautifully coordinated, and all the rest, it must be that not much is going on – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

10. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door – Sarah Yule

11. In China the sovereign is worshipped as a god. That I think is how it ought to be – Napoleon (1769-1821) Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena

12. I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep – Harold Wilson (1916-1995)

13. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character – Martin Luther King Jun. (1929-1968)

14. If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand – Milton Friedman (1912-2006)