"If you hold your fire until you..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.”

“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”

“The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.”

“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”

“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.”

“To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.”

“All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.”

“All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.”