These are several important historical figures that influence our life and changed the course of the world.

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."- Moses. The Ten Commandments, Exodus 20, 1-17

"Blessed are the poor in spirit:for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."-- Jesus of Nazareth, The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7

"The scientific history of radium is beautiful."--Marie Curie,On the discovery of radium, Vassae College, New York 14 May 1921

"I believe in the law of love."--Clarence Darrow, Closing speech in defence of Henry Sweet, April 1926

"my patience is now at an end."--Adolf Hitler, Speech at the Sportpalast,Berlin,26 September 1938.
"I am from now on just first soldier of the German Reich."--Speech to the Reichstag,Berlin, 1 september 1939

"I have nothing to offer but blood,toil,tears, and sweat."--Sir Winston Churchill, House of Commons,London,13 May 1940
"This was their finest hour."-- House of Commons,London, 18 June 1940
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."-- House of Commons,London,20 August 1940

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."--Franklin D.Roosevelt, Inaugural address, 4 March 1933
"A date which will live in infamy."-- Speech to Congress,8 December 1941

"The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die."-- Charles de Gaulle, Appeal of 18 June 1940

"I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler."--General George S. Patton Jr, Speech to the US Third Army on the eve of D-Day, 5 June 1944

"The enemy has begun to emply a new and most cruel bomb."-- Emperor Hiroshito, The surrender of Japan, August 1945

"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."--Jawaharlal Nehru, Speech on the granting of Indian Independence, 14 August 1947

"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom"
--Jawaharlal Nehru, Speech on the granting of Indian Independence, 14 August 1947
"The reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity."-- J.Robert Oppenheimer,Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2 November 1945

"I have just left your fighting sons in Korea. They are splendid in every way."-- General Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address to Congress,Washington,19 April 1951

"I am the First Accused."--Nelson Mandela,Pretoria,20 April 1964
"Free at last!",Johannesburg,2 May 1994

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." -- John F. Kennedy,Inaugural address, Washington, 20 January 1961

"I have a dream."-- Martin Luther King,Jr, Lincoln Memorial,Washington DC, 28 August 1963
"I've seen the promised land."--Memphis,Tennessee, 3 April 1968

"You can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree."-- Malcolm X, Detroit, 14 February 1965

"Woman's education is almost more important than the education of boys and men."- Indira Gandhi, New Delhi,23 November 1974

"Love begins at home."-- Mother Teresa, Speech on receiving the Nobel Prize, Oslo Norway, 11 December 1979

"Mr Gorbachev,tear down this wall!"-- Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

"Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions."-- Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the United Nations, New York, 7 December 1988
i like those quotes :D
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