Question | Answer |
"These are the times that try men's souls." | Thomas Paine, 1776 "The American Crisis" |
"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." | Thomas Jefferson |
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbit it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" | Patrick Henry |
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." | FDR - 2nd Inaugural Address |
"Those who write don't shoot, and those who shoot don't write." | Robert F. Kennedy, Statement made on presidential campaign trail, 1968 |
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." | Charles Dickens, closing line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. | Mark Twain |
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here." | Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy" 1300 |
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." | Shakespeare - "Hamlet" |
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." | George Orwell, "Animal Farm" |