But if we have been willing to give our lives to this…

It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up…

— Sienna Miller

Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries because…

— Otto Lilienthal

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though…

— Aristotle

Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such…

— Subhas Chandra Bose

“At a certain time in our existential experience, we must just not want better for ourselves, but for our country and the success of…

— Henry Johnson Jr

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

— Swami Vivekananda

[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our…

— Randy Neugebauer

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts…

— George Washington

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

— John Quincy Adams

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our…

— Samuel Adams

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of…

— Breyten Breytenbach

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

— John Tyler

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle