Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Fifth State of the Union Address (February 2013)
"Ambassador Qin Gang Takes an Interview with Forbes" https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjb_663304/zwjg_665342/zwbd_665378/202205/t20220506_10682131.html (5 May 2022)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Fifth State of the Union Address (February 2013)
“I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.”
Liu Xiaobo (1955–2017) Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist
NPR http://www.npr.org/2012/02/16/146988012/liu-xiaobo-no-enemies-no-hatred-only-courage - "Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage" 16 Feb. 2012 <br class="br">Context: I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Edward Jenks (1861–1939) British legal scholar
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter X, Contract And Tort, p. 132
“One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.”
Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Ma Ying-jeou (1950) Taiwanese politician, president of the Republic of China
Source: Ma Ying-jeou (2013) cited in: " Ma says meeting with Xi Jinping rests on popular approval http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan-relations/2013/07/27/384866/Ma-says.htm" in The China Post, 27 July 2013.<br><br>Statement made at the Presidential Office in Taipei commenting on the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, 25 July 2013.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Address at Oyster Bay, New York (27 July 1904) http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/txtspeeches/104.txt, in response to the committee appointed to notify him of his nomination for the Presidency. <br class="br">1900s
“Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Expense
David Graeber (1961) American anthropologist and anarchist
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Seven, "Honor and Degradation", p. 193