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Said in the 1900s

• “It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”

  Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter (10 July 1962), quoted in Donald Watt (ed.) Aldous Huxley: The Citical Heritage (1975)

• “We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”

  Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Radio broadcast, London, Dieu Protège La France [God protect France], October 21, 1940 (partial text).

• “It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.”

  Enoch Powell (1912–1998) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attacking the Labour President of the Board of Trade, Douglas Jay, who wanted to standardise packaging for detergents. (The Daily Telegraph 29 April 1967); quoted in Simon Heffer, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powel…

• “You breathe better when you're rich.”

  Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.”

  H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1920-1936), p. 279

• “If Congress alters the law and directs me to replace on the coins the sentence in question the direction will be immediately put into effect; but I very earnestly trust that the religious sentiment of the country, the sprit of reverence in this country, will prevent any such action being taken.”

  Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The same equations have the same solutions”

  Richard Feynman (1918–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “29. From this comes the realisation of the Self (the soul) and the removal of all obstacles.”

  Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am for force, because in force I see strength, and in strength the eternal mother of rights, and in rights the root of life itself.”

  Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech (11 March 1933), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat, 1869–1941 (1973), p. 171 and The Times (22 March 1933), p. 15

• “I'm going to have to bring up the nigger bill again.”

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Said to a southern U.S. Senator upon the occasion of the Republicans re-introducing the Civil Right Act of 1957, according to LBJ's Special Counsel Harry McPherson. As quoted in

• “I'm told that some men heat their bath water by burning the love letters they get from women.”

  Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “राष्ट्रीय व्यवहार में हिन्दी को काम में लाना देश की शीघ्र उन्नति के लिए आवश्यक है।”

  मोहनदास करमचंद गांधी (1869–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Die Natur zeigt uns vom Löwen zwar nur den Schwanz. Aber es ist mir unzweifelhaft, dass der Löwe dazugehört, wenn er sich auch wegen seiner ungeheuren Dimensionen dem Blicke nicht unmittelbar offenbaren kann. Wir sehen ihn nur wie eine Laus, die auf ihm sitzt.”

  Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Heinrich Zangger (10 March 1914), quoted in The Curious History of Relativity by Jean Eisenstaedt (2006), p. 126.

• “If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.”

  Che Guevara (1928–1967) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Regarding the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in an interview for Radio Rivadavia of Argentina (3 November 1959)

• “But that story has in it the only constructive thing I ever learned about women - that no matter what happened to them and how they turned, you should try to disregard all that and remember them only as they were on the best day they ever had.”

  Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament — this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.”

  Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”

  C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.”

  P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Constitution of the United States has for its almost sole purpose the protection of the freedom of the people. We must combat every attempt to break down or to make it easy, under the pretended guise of legal procedure, to throw open the way to reaction or revolution. To adopt any other course is to put in jeopardy the sacred right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.”

  Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As Blake said, there is no competition between true poets.”

  Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A little unsure of himself in her presence, he always addressed her in questions, a habit common to parents, sovereigns, generals, and teachers.”

  André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I think some of us found that we were getting to cling much more loosely to material wealth, and to realise that wealth was made to be a servant and not a master—that as a servant it had a most useful function to perform, that as a master it meant damnation.”

  Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech in Leeds (13 March 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 61-62

• “It's not enough to be happy! It is also necessary that others are not. (May 16, 1894; Vergani, p. 75)”

  Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “An earthquake is such fun when it is over.”

  George Orwell (1903–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source