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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

- Macaulay | Ancestry Quotes

The art of making much show with little substance.

- Macaulay | Conceit Quotes

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

- Macaulay | Constitution Quotes

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

- Macaulay | Demagogues Quotes

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

- Macaulay | Grave Quotes

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

- Macaulay | Morality Quotes

The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion.

- Macaulay | Oratory Quotes

Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?"

- Macaulay | Self-Sacrifice Quotes

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

- Macaulay | Shakespeare Quotes