“The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives”
— Pericles
“This man has overcome two of the greatest failings in human nature—he knows neither fear nor hatred”
— Winston Churchill
“That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth”
— Abraham Lincoln
“He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees”
— Jean Edward Smith
“I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There’s nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life”
— Lee Kuan Yew
“My life is my message”
— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi