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Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895West India Emancipation (If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress) (1857)
- Wisdom
Since truth and reason have maintained their ground against false opinions in league with false facts, the press, confined to truth, needs no other legal restraint; the public judgment will correct false reasoning and opinions on a full hearing of all parties.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Jefferson’s Second Inaugural Address (1805)
- Journalism
- Truth & Lies
We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address (1985)
- Motivation & Goals
For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address (2013)
- History
We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address (2013)
- America
History has called America and our allies to action, and it is both our responsibility and our privilege to fight freedom’s fight.
George W. Bushborn 1946The Axis of Evil (2002)
- War & Peace
I believe that to have interfered as I have done⁠—as I have always freely admitted I have done⁠—in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
John Brown1800–1859John Brown’s Last Speech (1859)
- Justice
- Slavery
Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments,⁠—I submit; so let it be done!
John Brown1800–1859John Brown’s Last Speech (1859)
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- Religion
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Youth
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Women
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;⁠—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the Third: The Track of a Storm, Chapter VIn context
- Liberty
- Life & Death
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the Third: The Track of a Storm, Chapter XVIn context
- Hope
Who aint a slave? Tell me that.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXIIIn context
- God