“I wanted to show my love for our President that a Jew had the guts to shoot a murderer.”— Jack Ruby
“In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.”— Idi Amin
“It is true that we have annulled the election, but we have not killed democracy.”— Ibrahim Babangida
“Indeed, We declared war on America and Britain out of Our sincere desire to ensure Japan's self-preservation and the stabilization of East Asia, it being far from Our thought either to encroach upon the sovereignty of other nations or to embark upon territorial aggrandizement.”— Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa)
“You convince yourself that it's not cheating, it's just leveling the playing field.”— Tyler Hamilton
“Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.”— Albert Bandura
“What I did not do was to betray the interests of my country in the war, because I was working for the Russians, who were our allies.”— Anthony Blunt