“This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.“

-Winston Churchill, Speech to the House of Commons, 1938

“The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better.”
- Max Roser

“Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest. Blessed is he.”

— The Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Gilbert Murray)

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Tristram Shandy, Book II, Ch. 17, by Laurence Sterne

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
— Socrates, as recorded by Plato in Apology.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

“Receive what cheer you may,
The night is long that never finds the day.”

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act IV, Scene III)

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt