Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia
During a 1921 meeting with American businessman Armand Hammer, as quoted in Hammer: Witness to History by Hammer and Neil Lyndon (1988), p. 160
On Ukraine
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia
During a 1921 meeting with American businessman Armand Hammer, as quoted in Hammer: Witness to History by Hammer and Neil Lyndon (1988), p. 160
“Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.”
Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer
L'amour a toujours été pour moi la plus grande des affaires ou plutôt la seule.
La Vie d'Henri Brulard (1890)
Variant translation: Love has always been the most important business in my life, or rather the only one.
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia
Marginal note to a memorandum written by Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten (May 1918), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 580
1910s
Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904) Prussian Field Marshal
Waldersee in his diary, 15 October 1885, quoted in Scott A. Silverstone, From Hitler's Germany to Saddam's Iraq
Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister
About Ukraine seeking membership in Nato, after the Nato–Russia Council was created at the Nato summit in Rome, May 28, 2002. http://www.usubc.org/keyissues/russia_reset040109.php <br class="br">On Ukraine
F. J. Duarte (1954) Chilean-American physicist
in Dirac Optics, [F. J. Duarte, Tunable Laser Optics, Elsevier Academic, 2003, 0-12-222696-8, 37]
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
Leicester Pioneer (7 August 1914), quoted in The Times (18 January 1924), p. 14
1910s
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
K 39
Variant translation: Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)