André Wiering

Teddy Roosevelt: 'It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deed might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.' Winston Churchill: 'Those who appease the crocodile will simply be eaten last.' (on the cowardly way the former British Prime Minister Chamberlain tried to appease the German national socialists.) Winston Churchill (During the darkest hours of World War II, when the world faced a global threat from German Nazism, Italian Fascism and Japanese Imperialism, Churchill challenged his people to rise to the occasion and fight.): 'Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.' Edmund Burke: 'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' Captain Jean Luc Picard (in Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 'The Drumhead'): 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Saint Paul in his letter to the Ephesians, capital 6, verses 10-12 (taken from a translation of the Bible called the 'New International Version'): "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Clint Easwood as Walt Kowalski in 'Gran Torino' (2008): 'Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with?' Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father: 'If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.' Mahatma Gandhi: 'Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.' Margaret Thatcher, 10 October 1980: 'If our people feel that they are part of a great nation and they are prepared to will the means to keep it great, a great nation we shall be, and shall remain. So, what can stop us from achieving this? What then stands in our way? The prospect of another winter of discontent? I suppose it might. But I prefer to believe that certain lessons have been learnt from experience, that we are coming, slowly, painfully, to an autumn of understanding. And I hope that it will be followed by a winter of common sense. If it is not, we shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the 'U-turn', I have only one thing to say: 'You turn [U-turn] if you want to. The lady's not for turning.' I say that not only to you but to our friends oversea