"I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor."

---Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

---Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It is plain as day that he will never be Taoiseach without Green support."

---Green Party's spokesperson Paul Gogarty on Enda Kenny

"This is government by revenge. Saddam Hussein is our leader and now he is a martyr of history. We will turn ourselves into bombs to avenge him."

---Sabah al-Shamri, a former colonel in Saddam's Republican Guard,

"I'd love to know. And I'd bury them. But I don't know. But somebody was. Somebody had fairly calculated and manipulatively planned this out. But I don't know. I could get lucky some day if I find out."

---Bertie Ahern TD, Taoiseach, talking about the person responsible for revealing to the Irish Times that he took money in the mid 1990s from friends totalling €50,000.

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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

---Fidel Castro

"Hear me people: We now have to deal with another race---small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possessions is a disease with them. These people have made many rules which the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule."

---Chief Sitting Bull, speaking at the Powder River Conference, 1877