The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

児孫のために美田を買わず。

-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority

I do not mind hardship — only let it be hardship that matters.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

Eis ton kratiston. (To the strongest.)

-- The Macedonian king who conquered the known world before his thirtieth birthday

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

-- The Macedonian king who conquered the known world before his thirtieth birthday

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun