"I would rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised." - Benjamin Franklin
"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences." - Winston Churchill
"How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave." - Winston Churchill
"We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy." - Thomas Jefferson
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent." - Martin Luther King Jr
"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." - Barack Obama
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it." - John Adams
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it." - James A Baldwin
"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance." - Jawahar Lal Nehru
"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds." - Abraham Lincoln
