Eureka! I have found it!

Archimedes · The source reads: “Eureka! [I've got it!]”

Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.

Archimedes · With reference to a lever, in Pappus 'Synagoge' bk. 8, sect. 19, proposition 10.

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We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in all other matters, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

Albert Einstein · From his message for the Gandhi memorial service, 11 February 1948.

Where one is happy, there is one's homeland.

A Latin saying, ubi bene, ibi patria, with roots in Cicero and Aristophanes.

O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!

Madame Roland · The source reads: “O libertè! O libertè! que de crimes on commet en ton nom! O liberty! O liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!”

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“Eureka! I have found it!”

“Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.”

“We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in all other matters, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.”

“Where one is happy, there is one's homeland.”

“O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!”