I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Kings are justly called gods, for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of divine power upon earth.

-- James VI and I

Our lives and blood for our King Maria Theresa!

-- Maria Theresa of Austria

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

-- Oliver Cromwell

The mercy of late birth.

-- Helmut Kohl

Terror is nothing other than justice — prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.

-- Maximilien Robespierre

The mainspring of popular government in revolution is at once virtue and terror — virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless.

-- Maximilien Robespierre