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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

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

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

1969

★ 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

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities of the simple body and the simple soul.

1888

★ 9.4

Speech · Political speech

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln · 1865

★ 9.3

Song · Protest music · Folk music

For the loser now will be later to win, For the times they are a-changin'.

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1964

★ 9.2

Speech · Political speech

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

1863

★ 9.2

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Thomas Jefferson

1787

★ 9.1

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

1925

★ 9.1

The customer is always right.

1905

★ 9.0

Speech · Political speech

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln · 1861

★ 9.0

Speech · Political speech

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy · 1961

★ 9.0

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!

1964

★ 9.0

Speech · Political speech

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

1987

★ 9.0

Interview · Newspapers

History is more or less bunk.

1916

★ 8.9

It ain't over till it's over.

1973

★ 8.9

The buck stops here.

1945

★ 8.9

Philosophical literature

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

The Life of Reason · 1905

★ 8.8

We are the 99 Percent.

2011

★ 8.8

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