Find here the famous and inspiring quotes, quotations and sayings. These quotations are gleaned from the writings and speeches of the world's most memorable individuals such as America's founding fathers, Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa, Adolph Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi and many more.

Abraham Lincoln
• "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."


• "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."


• "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."


• "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."


• "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."


• "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."



Adolf Hitler
• "The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."


• "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones."


• "What luck for the rulers that men do not think."


• "If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things."



Albert Einstein
• "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."


• "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."


• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."


• "Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."


• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."


• "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."



Alexander Hamilton
• "No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave."


• "A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people."


• "I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man."



Benjamin Franklin
• "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."


• "Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."


• "Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech."


• "A dying man can do nothing easy."


• "Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day."


• "A Spoonful of Honey will catch more Flies than a Gallon of Vinegar."



George Washington
• "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people's liberty's teeth."


• "Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder."


• "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."


• "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."



John Adams
• "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."


• "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."


• "Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."


• "When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."


• "But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations...This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution."


• "Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."



Mahatma Gandhi
• "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."


• "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."


• "To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend."


• "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him."


• "A True soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. It is in that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well."


• "Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living ?"



Mother Teresa
• "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."


• "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."


• "Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."


• "Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.."


• "I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?"


• "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."



Stephen Jay Gould
• "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."


• "Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory."


• "When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."


• "A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right."



Thomas Jefferson
• "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."


• "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."


• "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."


• "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."