Thou shalt have no other gods before me (The Ten Commandments, Exodus 20, 1-17) / Moses
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7) / Jesus of Nazareth
Turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque (Koran 2, 144-145, 147-50) / Mohammed
My little sisters, the birds, much bounden are ye unto God (Sermon to the birds, c. 1220) / St Francis of Assisi
I have the heart and stomach of a king (Speech to the English troops at Tilbury, 1588) / Queen Elizabeth I
I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown (Speech on the scaffold, 30 January 1649) / King Charles I
In the name of God, go! (Dismisses the Rump Parliament, 20 April 1653) / Oliver Cromwell
A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils (Farewell address, 7 September 1796) / George Washington
We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists (Inaugural address, 4 March 1801) / Thomas Jefferson
Soldiers of my Old Guard, I bid you farewell (Farewell to the Old Guard, 20 April 1814) / Napoleon Bonaparte
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation (The Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863) / Abraham Lincoln
I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle (Speech on women's suffrage, 13 November 1913) / Emmeline Pankhurst
The scientific history of radium is beautiful (On the discovery of radium, 14 May 1921) / Marie Curie
There is no salvation for India (4 February 1916) / Mohandas Gandhi
Power to the Soviets (September 1917) / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The world must be made safe for democracy (Speech to Congress, 2 April 1917) / Woodrow Wilson
I believe in the law of love (Closing speech in defence of Henry Sweet, April 1926) / Clarence Darrow
Peace for our time (London, 30 September 1938) / Neville Chamberlain
My patience is now at an end (Speech at the Sportpalast, Berlin, 26 September 1938) ; I am from now on just first soldier of the German Reich (Speech at the Reichstag, Berlin, 1 September 1939) / Adolf Hitler
It is essential that the war continue for as long as possible (Speech to the Politburo, 19 August 1939) / Joseph Stalin
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat (House of Commons, London, 13 May 1940) ; This was their finest hour (House of Commons, London, 18 June 1940) ; Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few (House of Commons, London, 20 August 1940) / Winston Churchill
Perfidy unparalleled in the history of civilized nations (On the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941) / Vyacheslav Molotov
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Inaugural address, 4 March 1933) ; A date which will live in infamy (Speech to Congress, 8 December 1941) / Franklin D. Roosevelt
The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die (Appeal of 18 June 1940) / Charles de Gaulle
I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler (Speech on the eve of D-Day, 5 June 1944) / General George S. Patton, Jr
The enemy has begun to deploy a new and most cruel bomb (The surrender of Japan, August 1945) / Emperor Hirohito
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom (Speech on the granting of independence, 4 August 1947) / Jawaharlal Nehru
The reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity (Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2 November 1945) / J. Robert Oppenheimer
I have just left your fighting sons in Korea ... They are splendid in every way (Farewell speech to Congress, 19 April 1951) / General Douglas MacArthur
I am the first accused (20 April 1964) ; Free at last (2 May 1994) / Nelson Mandela
These were all good men (The fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising, 10 April 1966) / Eamon de Valera
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country (Inaugural address, 20 January 1961) ; Ich bin ein Berliner (At the Berlin Wall, 26 June 1963) / John F. Kennedy
I have a dream (Lincoln Memorial, Washington, 28 August 1963) ; I've seen the promised land (Memphis, Tennessee, 3 April 1968) / Martin Luther King Jr
You can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree (14 February 1965) / Malcolm X
I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black (Speech to Congress, 21 May 1969) / Shirley Chisolm
Who are the kidnap victims? (National broadcast, 16 October 1970) / Pierre Trudeau
Stop the killing (Address to the Knesset, 26 May 1970) / Golda Meir
There can be no whitewash at the White House (Address to the nation, 30 April 1973) / Richard M. Nixon
Women's education is almost more important than the education of boys and men (23 November 1974) / Indira Gandhi
Hate, ignorance and evil (Address to the UN General Assembly, 10 November 1975) / Chaim Herzog
Love begins at home (Speech on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, 11 December 1979) / Mother Teresa
Our Polish freedom costs so much (Speech at Jasna G©đra monastery, Poland, 18 June 1983) / Pope John Paul II
Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 12 June 1987) / Ronald Reagan
Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions (Address to UN General Assembly, 7 December 1988) / Mikhail Gorbachev
The time for negotiation has arrived (Speech at the opening of parliament, 2 February 1990) / F.W. de Klerk
We live in a contaminated moral environment (Broadcast to the people of Czechoslovakia, 1 January 1990) / Vaclav Havel
The perils of indifference (Seventh White House Millennium Evening, 12 April 1999) / Elie Wiesel
A great people has been moved to defend a great nation (Address to the nation, 11 September 2001) / George W. Bush.
