'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against read more

'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.'
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Winston
Churchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorising
use of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6
invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (British
Petroleum) in the last 100 years.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad
check to black people.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad
check to black people.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send read more

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and read more

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for read more

If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality read more

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, read more

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - read more

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.