Historical Documents Quotes

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

"All men are created equal."

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

"God doesn't play dice with the world."

"I believe it is peace for our time."

"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."

"Know thyself."

"Money often costs too much."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

"War is Hell!"

"We the people…"

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."