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The Most Cited Quotes Of All Time

The Most Cited Quotes Of All Time

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Nov 26, 2023
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These are the most cited quotes of all time

"To be or not to be, that is the question." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Cogito, ergo sum." (I think, therefore I am.) - René Descartes

"The only thing constant is change." - Heraclitus

"E pluribus unum." (Out of many, one.) - Latin motto of the United States

"I have a dream.” - Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream speech

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." - Theodore Parker

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy, inaugural address

"We shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, June 18, 1940

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke, A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry, speech to the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775

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