The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its
victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own
abuses and encroachments.
Speech in the Senate, 14 March 1834
I had rather be right than be President.
To Senator Preston of South Carolina, 1839
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no
South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance...The
Union, sir, is my country.
Speech in the Senate (1848)
3.115 Eldridge Cleaver 1935—
What we’re saying today is that you’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.
Speech in San Francisco, 1968, in R. Scheer ‘Eldridge Cleaver, Post Prison Writings and Speeches’ (1969) p.
32
3.116 John Cleese 1939—
See Graham Chapman et al. (3.74)
3.117 John Cleese 1939—and Connie Booth
They’re Germans. Don’t mention the war.
‘Fawlty Towers’ (BBC TV comedy series) ‘The Germans’ (1975)
Pretentious? Moi?
‘Fawlty Towers’ (BBC TV comedy series) ‘The Psychiatrist’ (1979)
3.118 John Cleland 1710-89
Truth! stark naked truth, is the word.
‘Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure’ a.k.a. ‘Fanny Hill’ (1749) vol. 1
3.119 Georges Clemenceau 1841-1929
La guerre, c’est une chose trop grave pour la confier á des militaires.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Attributed to Clemenceau, e.g. in Hampden Jackson ‘Clemenceau and the Third Republic’ (1946) p. 228, but
also to Briand and Talleyrand
Politique intèrieure, je fais la guerre; politique extèrieure, je fais toujours la guerre. Je fais
toujours la guerre.
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
Speech to French Chamber of Deputies, 8 March 1918, in ‘Discours de Guerre’ (1968) p. 172
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix.
It is easier to make war than to make peace.