19th-century Political Leader Quotes

Philippe Pétain

Henry A. Wallace

Eugene V. Debs

Wladyslaw Sikorski

Rajendra Prasad

Faisal I of Iraq

C. Rajagopalachari

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

Henry A. Wallace

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

If India's government is to be an institution integrated with her people's lives, if it is to be a true democracy and not a superimposed western institution staged in Indian dress, religion must have an important and recognized place in it with impartiality and reverence for all the creeds and denominations prevailing in India.

C. Rajagopalachari

We have got used to relying on precedents of England to such an extent that it seems almost sacrilegious to have a different interpretation even if our conditions and circumstances might seem to require a different interpretation.

Rajendra Prasad

Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny... We are like mariners without a pilot.

Philippe Pétain

Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny.

Wladyslaw Sikorski

What the country needs most at the present moment is a spirit of self-sacrifice on the part of our educated young men, and they may take it from me that they cannot spend their lives in a better cause than raising the moral and intellectual level of their unhappy low castes and promoting their well-being.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.... We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.

Faisal I of Iraq

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.