Century Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget…

— Sherwood Anderson

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will…

— Victor Hugo

“More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will.…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“And men will not understand us—for the generation that grew up before us, though it has passed these years with us already had a…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into…

— Woodrow Wilson

“And that in this backsliding day, we might not spend our breath in fruitless complaints of the evils of others; but may everyone begin…

— Various

“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side with or…

— M. Guizot

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old,…

— Victor Hugo

“Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are—there we are in the Golden…

— Aldous Huxley

“Every generation has a plague, so to speak, and that kind of prejudice and discrimination could so easily happen again if we're not mindful…

— Ryan Murphy Screenwriter

“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth and falsehood, for the good or evil side;…

— James Russell Lowell