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History is a set of agreed upon lies. -Napoleon

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation. - Robert Kennedy

I don't know about the other members, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! -Patrick Henry

The business of America is Business –Calvin Coolidge

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. -Ben Franklin

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win . –Mahatma Gandhi

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

Everyone sees how you appear, few touch what you really are. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Let any nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -John Kennedy

I am a man of cold, reserved, and foreboding manners. -John Quincy Adams

Those who never learn history are condemned to repeat it. -Unknown

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! -Ronald Reagan

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it. -Andrew Jackson

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Vini, Vidi, Vici (Translation: I came, I saw, I conquered.) Julius Caesar

The Play, sir, is over - Marquis de Lafayette, to the British commander after the surrender at Yorktown

Be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Houston, tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed. - Neil Armstrong

I'm the hardest working man in America. - James Polk

Ich Bin Ein Berliner (Literal translation: I am a jelly donut.) - John Kennedy.

Therefore let us brace ourselves so that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' - Winston Churchill

There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. -Mark Twain

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right -Henry Ford

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. -Theodore Roethke

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don’t work -Thomas Edison

Only the paranoid survive. - Intel CEO Andrew Grove

If a man does his best, what else is there? -General George S. Patton

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends -Martin Luther King Jr.

The graveyards of the world are filled with indispensable men – Charles De Gaulle

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Anything he does to the strand, he does to himself. - Chief Seattle

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchman on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, goodwill toward men. -Prepared by John Kennedy for delivery at the Dallas Trade Mart Luncheon, November 22, 1963, Undelivered

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -Declaration of Independence