Introduction -- "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 Febrary 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, 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 Chisholm
"Who are the kidnap victims?" : national broadcast, 16 October 1970 / Pierre Trudeau
"Stop the killing." : addres 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 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 Góra 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