“Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes in all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

– 1 Corinthians Ch. 13 New American Standard Bible

“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. “

– J F Kennedy. Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy – January 20th 1961

“we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender”

– Winston Churchill. Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. “

– Charles Darwin

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”

– Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence 1776

“You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”

– Winston Churchill. Speech in the House of Commons, after taking office as Prime Minister (13 May 1940)

“Four score 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. “

“Contending for the rights of women, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she stop the progress of knowledge, for truth must be common to all, or it will inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practise.”

– Mary Wollstonecraft – Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792

– Abraham Lincoln 1963 Gettysburg Address

“I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.”

– Nelson Mandela. Speech on the day of his release, Cape Town (11 February 1990)

“The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!”

– Josef Stalin – July 1941

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

– Abraham Lincoln 1858 – House Divided Speech

“The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.”

– Nelson Mandela

” Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.”

– Martin Luther King – 1963

“And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land”

– Martin Luther King – 1968 – “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top Speech

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

– Mahatma Gandhi “Interview to the Press” in Karachi about the execution of Indian nationalist Bhagat Singh (26 March 1926);

“I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.”

– Woodrow Wilson League of Nations Address (25 September 1919)

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF THE WORLD, UNITE!”

“A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism.”

– Karl Marx, F.Engels, Communist Manifesto 1848

“The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.”

– President Mikhail Gorbachev Speech (July 1988)

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners. “

– Lenin

“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”

– Wilfred Owen, from Anthem for Doomed Youth. First World War

“In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth”.

– Siegfried Sassoon in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. First World War

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…”

– George Bernard Shaw The World (15 November 1893)

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.”

– George Orwell, 1984

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

– o 22:37-40 (KJV)

“Repeal the Missouri Compromise — repeal all compromises — repeal the Declaration of Independence — repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man’s heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”

– Abraham Lincoln 1854

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

– Abraham Lincoln 1865 Second Inaugural Address

“I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.”

– Thomas Jefferson

“I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man”, “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man”, and “I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

– Thomas Jefferson

“I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order. “

– President Mikhail Gorbachev Nobel Address 1991

“Why not?”

President Mikhail Gorbachev – When asked if he thought the Berlin Wall should be dismantled. (unsourced)

“Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions […]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).”

— Günter Schabowski, November 9th, 1989 East Germany

“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer quotes (American theoretical Physicist nicknamed the ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’. 1904-1967)

“This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o’clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you that no such understanding has been received and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.”

Neville Chamberlain – 3rd September 1939

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

– Barack Obama:

“A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom”

– Jawaharlal Nehru – August 14th 1947. On eve of Indian independence

“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”

– Exodus 22, King James Version

“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the world and loses his own soul?”

– Matthew 24:14,

“Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, “Why not?” “

– George Bernard Shaw:

” Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”