Sourced and curated.

Our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.

1974

★ 6.9

Political debate

1976

★ 6.9

That's our motto. We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.

Are you lost daddy I asked tenderly. Shut up he explained.

1964

★ 6.3

Ring Lardner

1920

★ 6.0

Pop music

Set me free, why don'tcha, baby Get out my life, why don'tcha, baby 'Cause you don't really love me You just keep me hangin' on.

The Supremes

You Keep Me Hangin' On · 1966

★ 5.5

Song · Hip hop

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it, or just let it slip?

Eminem

Lose Yourself · 2002

★ 5.5

There are no warlike peoples-just warlike leaders.

Ralph J. Bunche

1950

★ 5.3

Poem

What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden

1962

★ 5.3

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

Yeah, I try to leave out the parts that people skip.

1970

★ 5.3

Elmore Leonard

1985

★ 5.2

Political literature

Habit and custom may be the wisdom of unlettered men, but they come from the sound ancient heart of humanity.

Russell Kirk

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot · 1953

★ 5.1

Film · Biography (film) · Drama (film) · Biography · Drama

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us!

I worry about if and when I'll ever find the right man, if I'll ever be able to exhale. The more I try not to think about it, the more I think about it.

Malcolm X · 1992

★ 4.8

Novel

Terry McMillan

Waiting to Exhale · 1992

★ 4.5

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what... Who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims...These are people who pay no income tax...And so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

Mitt Romney

2012

★ 4.4

Novel

I asked him one time what type of writing brought the most money and the agent says, "Ransom notes."

Elmore Leonard

Get Shorty (novel) · 1990

★ 4.3

I can't prove you are a Communist. But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks-I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck.

Emil Mazey

1946

★ 4.2

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.

The Ballot or the Bullet · 1964

★ 4.0

You had better make some noise.

1965

★ 4.0

New York was heaven to me. And Harlem was Seventh Heaven!

The Autobiography of Malcolm X · 1965

★ 4.0

It'll be ballots, or it'll be bullets. It'll be liberty, or it will be death.

Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone, he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone, he's created destruction. So I charge him.

The Ballot or the Bullet · 1964

★ 3.9

Film · Biography (film) · Drama (film) · Biography · Drama

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime

Malcolm X · 1992

★ 3.8

Song · Hip hop

Eminem

Lose Yourself · 2002

★ 3.8

Song · Hip hop

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth but the words won't come out He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now The clock's run out, time's up, over, blaow!

Eminem

Lose Yourself · 2002

★ 3.7

Speech

Corporations are people, my friend.

Mitt Romney

2011

★ 3.7

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

Henry Ford

1909

★ 3.6

Political literature

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

1960

★ 3.6

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. They are inconvenient. They cost us something. But are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?

William McKinley

Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley · 1901

★ 3.5

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

1929

★ 3.5

Newspaper

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

1992

★ 3.5

Film · Biography (film) · Drama (film) · Biography · Drama

Because of the spiritual rebirth which I was blessed to undergo as a result of my pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping indictments of one race. I intend to be very careful not to sentence anyone who has not been proven guilty. I'm not a racist and do not subscribe to any of the tenets of racism. In all honesty and sincerity it can be stated that I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people. Now my first concern, of course, is with the group to which I belong, for we, more than any others, are deprived of our inalienable rights. But I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer of racism from the hearts and the souls of all Americans.

So take a good look at my face. You'll see my smile looks out of place. If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears.

Malcolm X · 1992

★ 2.9

Song · Soul

The Miracles

The Tracks of My Tears · 1965

★ 2.9

Life Begins at Forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

1932

★ 2.7

My alma mater was books.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X · 1965

★ 2.4

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

You are not an American, you are the victim of America!

The Ballot or the Bullet · 1964

★ 2.3

Film · Biography (film) · Drama (film) · Biography · Drama

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Malcolm X · 1992

★ 2.3

Newspaper

Henry Ford

1919

★ 2.1

Lynchings must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like the United States; courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.

William McKinley

First Inaugural Address of William McKinley · 1897

★ 2.0

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for...human rights.

1964

★ 2.0