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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "Day of Infamy." US Congress meeting. 8 Dec. 1941, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.
Niebuhr, Reinhold. Diary entry. 1932.
Parker, Theodore. "Of Justice and the Conscience." Ten Sermons of Religion. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company/New York: Charles S. Francis and Company, 1853.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Gettysburg Address." At the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery. 19 Nov. 1863, Gettysburg, PA, USA.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.
Commonly (and more satisfyingly) rendered as "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
Tyson, Mike. "Tall Man Tyrell Biggs Thinks His Height will Add New Dimension to Oct. 16 Fight." Interviewed by Rick Warner. The Times and Democrat, 19 Aug. 1987.
The American Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion
Franklin, Benjamin. "Advice to a Young Tradesman." The American Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion. Philadelphia: George Fisher, 1748.
Franklin, Benjamin. "Advice to a Young Tradesman." Benjamin Franklin: Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body and Early Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Where Do We Go From Here?" 11th Annual SCLC Convention. 16 Aug. 1967, Atlanta, GA, USA.
"Thus always to tyrants" in Latin. Shouted immediately before assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
Booth, John Wilkes. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 14 Apr. 1865, Ford's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Franklin, Benjamin, [published anonymously]. "Bradshaw's Epitaph." Pennsylvania Evening Post. Philadelphia, 14 Dec. 1775.
Franklin, Benjamin. "Bradshaw's Epitaph." Benjamin Franklin: Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body and Early Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.
Greeley, Horace. Quoted in New-York Daily Tribune. 13 July 1865.
Lovell, James. Words spoken aboard Apollo 13 space mission. 13 Apr. 1970.
Dederich, Charles. Used by Charles Dederich as a part of the antidrug movement Synanon. c. 1958.
Church, Francis. "Is There a Santa Claus?" The New York Sun, 21 Sept. 1897.
Church, Francis. Quoted in The Christmas Chronicles, written by Jeff Guinn. Penguin, 2008.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.
Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 31.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.
Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 1, I. 1.
Jefferson, Thomas [published anonymously]. Notes on the State of Virginia. Paris: Philippe Denis Pierres, 1785, query 18.
Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia, edited by Frank Shuffelton. Penguin Classics, 1998, query 18.
Plea entered in response to the charge that he had murdered his ex wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman.
Simpson, O. J. Superior Court of California for and in the County of Los Angeles. The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson. 20 June 1994.
Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869.
Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003.