Statesmen & speeches

all 36 quotes in this pack

• “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
• “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
• “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
• “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
• “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
• “It is not the critic who counts.”
• “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
• “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
• “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
• “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
• “With malice toward none, with charity for all.”
• “An iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
• “Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
• “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
• “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
• “These are the times that try men's souls.”
• “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
• “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
• “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”
• “Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.”
• “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
• “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.”
• “The better angels of our nature.”
• “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
• “After all, the chief business of the American people is business.”
• “The world must be made safe for democracy.”
• “England expects every man will do his duty.”
• “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
• “I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”
• “Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
• “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.”
• “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.”
• “The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.”
• “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
• “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
• “Facts are stubborn things.”