Powerful words travel through the centuries and capture history's biggest moments. From ancient wisdom to the fight for liberty and justice, discover and share these landmark quotes.
Historical quotes
The ancient world
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates, in Plato's Apology
I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar
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Give me liberty, or give me death! — Patrick Henry
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. — Declaration of Independence
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. — Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. — Frederick Douglass
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A government of laws, and not of men. — John Adams
That government is best which governs least. — Henry David Thoreau
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