We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal

- Thomas Jefferson

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

- John F. Kennedy

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice

- Barack Obama

A leader is a dealer in hope

- Napoleon Bonaparte

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul

- Nelson Mandela

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time

- Barack Obama

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

- Martin Luther King Jr.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet

- Abraham Lincoln

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman

- Margaret Thatcher

A house divided against itself cannot stand

- Abraham Lincoln

Where there is no struggle, there is no progress

- Frederick Douglass

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

- Alexander Hamilton

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance

- Thomas Jefferson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

- Lord Acton

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened

- John F. Kennedy

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction

- Ronald Reagan

Politics is the art of the possible

- Otto von Bismarck