Thomas Jefferson

"I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA

Harry S. Truman

"Whenever you have efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

- Harry S. Truman, former president of the USA

Lord Acton

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."

- Lord Acton, historian, politician and author

Shimon Peres

"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."

- Shimon Peres, politician

Demosthenes

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

- Demosthenes, Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens

Victor Hugo

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

- Victor Hugo, poet, playwright, novelist, statesman, human rights activist

Benjamin Disraeli

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician

Ronald Reagan

"Don't be afraid to see what you see."

- Ronald Reagan, former US president

Harry S. Truman

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

- Harry S. Truman, former president of the USA

Thomas Jefferson

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA

John F. Kennedy

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

- John F. Kennedy, former president of the USA

Benjamin Disraeli

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician

Winston Churchill

“It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing”

- Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Britan

Harry S. Truman

"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

- Harry S. Truman, former president of the USA

Thomas Jefferson

"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA

Ronald Reagan

"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."

- Ronald Reagan, former US president

Dag Hammarskjold

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

- Dag Hammarskjold, diplomat, economist, author

Abraham Lincoln

"I will prepare and someday my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt, politician, former president of the USA