Famous Historical Quotes
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The words that changed history, from the Gettysburg Address to the surface of the Moon. Every card names the speaker, the speech or letter it came from, and the moment that gave it force, including the famous lines everyone gets slightly wrong.
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
- We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
- John F. Kennedy
- Ich bin ein Berliner.
- John F. Kennedy
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 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.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.
- Abraham Lincoln
- A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
- We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
- An iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
- Winston Churchill
- Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that men will still say, This was their finest hour.
- Winston Churchill
- Never give in, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
- Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Winston Churchill
- It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill
- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
- Ronald Reagan
- That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong
- Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
- Neil Armstrong
- Houston, we've had a problem here.
- Jim Lovell
- Give me liberty, or give me death!
- Patrick Henry
- These are the times that try men's souls.
- Thomas Paine
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
- Thomas Jefferson
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
- In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin