Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
"The Candidate" in The New Yorker (31 May 2004) https://archive.is/20120909155716/www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040531fa_fact1 <br class="br">2004
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VI, Chapter VIII, Sec. 10
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
"The Candidate" in The New Yorker (31 May 2004) https://archive.is/20120909155716/www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040531fa_fact1 <br class="br">2004
Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon
60 Minutes interview (2005)
“All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Builders
The Builders.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men.”
Chief Joseph (1840–1904) Nez Percé Chieftain
Lincoln Hall Speech (1879)
Context: I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Google shows that the internet often attributes this statement to Einstein, but never with a source. It does not occur in any book in Google Books.
Misattributed
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
1900s, The Moral Equivalent of War (1906)
Context: There is nothing to make one indignant in the mere fact that life is hard, that men should toil and suffer pain. The planetary conditions once for all are such, and we can stand it. But that so many men, by mere accidents of birth and opportunity, should have a life of nothing else but toil and pain and hardness and inferiority imposed upon them, should have no vacation, while others natively no more deserving never get any taste of this campaigning life at all, — this is capable of arousing indignation in reflective minds. It may end by seeming shameful to all of us that some of us have nothing but campaigning, and others nothing but unmanly ease. If now — and this is my idea — there were, instead of military conscription, a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature, the injustice would tend to be evened out, and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would remain blind as the luxurious classes now are blind, to man's relations to the globe he lives on, and to the permanently sour and hard foundations of his higher life.
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Sir Walter Scott Collection Guy Mannering. Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I "The Education of the Architect" Sec. 1
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge
Reported in Eugene Gerhart, America's Advocate: Robert H. Jackson (1958), p. 289