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Political literature

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Declaration of Independence

1776

★ 10.0

Speech · Political speech

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream · 1963

★ 9.9

Economic literature

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 9.9

Scripture · Religious literature

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16 · 90

★ 9.9

Scientific literature

There is grandeur in this view of life...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

On the Origin of Species · 1859

★ 9.8

Philosophical literature

God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 9.8

Novel · Dystopian fiction

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 9.8

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 9.8

Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literature

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato, Theaetetus · 400 BC

★ 9.7

Song · Pop music

Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky.

Imagine · 1971

★ 9.7

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 9.7

Speech · Political speech

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1933

★ 9.6

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 9.6

Political literature · Philosophical literature

In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 9.6

Poem · Philosophical literature

And with the guts of the last priest Let's wring the neck of the last king.

1772

★ 9.6

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 9.6

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

1969

★ 9.5

Play · Tragedy (play)

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 9.5

Play · History play

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1839

★ 9.5

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

The Road Not Taken · 1916

★ 9.5

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