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- Antonio Gramsci
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
- Charles V
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
- Edward III
Let the boy win his spurs.
- Elizabeth I
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
- G. W. F. Hegel
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
- Halford Mackinder
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the World.
- Horatio Nelson
England expects that every man will do his duty.
- Horatio Nelson
Thank God I have done my duty.
- Karl Marx
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
- Philip Sidney
Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.