History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
What’s past is prologue.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Don’t confuse the truth with the opinion of the majority.