I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.

Necessity has no law. But feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cheat that men can play upon the Providence of God.

A great epoch demands a great art.

-- Amedeo Modigliani

My predecessors ruled but I know nothing about them, and so I do what I do that people may remember me.

-- Mansa Musa

A nation's hundred-year plan rests on education.

-- Itō Hirobumi

Gentlemen, life is short. Never waste your mind on trivial matters. Study much, work much, think much, laugh much.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

Nothing is more impossible than what Napoleon faced.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

There can be no diplomacy without the power to defend oneself.

-- Shigeru Yoshida