Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

You whites make all the ammunition.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

The Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel.

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it

I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.