Speaker 1

• “... Men are only decent when they are powerless.” — George Orwell
• “There are no facts, only interpretations.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
  
  

Speaker 2

• “Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.” — George Orwell
• “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

Speaker 3

• “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." — George Orwell
• “No victor believes in chance.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Every nation criticizes every other one — and they are all correct.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
  
  

Speaker 4

• “There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years.” — George Orwell
• “What does not kill me, makes me stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Life is a business that does not cover the costs.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
  
  

Speaker 5

• “Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.” — George Orwell
• “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

Speaker 6

• “There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.” — George Orwell
• “Most men are too concerned with themselves to be malicious.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
  

Speaker 7

• “Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.” — George Orwell
• “He who has a ‘Why?’ in life can tolerate almost any ‘How?’” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
  
  

Speaker 1

• "Not left. Not right. Forward." — Andrew Yang 2020
• "Don't change horses midstream." – Abraham Lincoln 1864
• "First in war, first in peace." – Winfield Scott 1852

Speaker 2

• "We're all in this together." — Beto O’Rourke 2020
• “Yes we can.” — Barack Obama 2008
• "Tell the Truth!" — Grover Cleveland 1884

Speaker 3

• “Not me. Us.” — Bernie Sanders 2020
• "It's never too late to do the right thing." — Evan McMullin 2016
• "Happy Days Are Here Again." — Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932

Speaker 4

• "Slow and Steady Wins the Race." — Jeb Bush 2016
• "There's No Indispensable Man." — Wendell L. Willkie 1940
• "Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge." – Calvin Coolidge 1924

Speaker 5

• "Our Future Is Now." — Tim Ryan 2020
• "We Can Do Better." — John F. Kennedy 1960
• "We are going to win this war and the peace that follows." – Franklin D. Roosevelt 1944

Speaker 6

• "Our best days still lie ahead." — Joe Biden 2020
• "It's Time to Change America." – Bill Clinton 1992
• "Some people talk change, others cause it." – Hubert Humphrey 1968

Speaker 7

• "It's in our hands." — Jill Stein 2016
• "We are the ones we've been waiting for." – Barack Obama 2008
• "We are turning the corner." — Herbert Hoover 1932

Speaker 1

Famous Last Words:

"Money can't buy life." — Bob Marley, Jamaican musician

"I knew it! Born in a goddamned hotel room, and dying in a hotel room." — Eugene O'Neill, American playwright

"The drama's over. Applaud." — Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor

Speaker 2

Famous Last Words:

"It is stuffy, sticky, and rainy here at present – but forecasts are more favourable." — J. R. R. Tolkien, postscript of letter to his daughter

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." — Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright

"I'm still learning." — Michelangelo, Italian artist and poet

Speaker 3

Famous Last Words

"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” — Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and scientist

"I am a queen, but I have not the power to move my arms." — Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia

"I should have been a concert pianist." — Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist

Speaker 4

Famous Last Words:

“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." — Che Guevara, Argentinian revolutionary, facing his captors

"Now is not the time for making new enemies."— Voltaire, French writer, when asked by a priest to renounce Satan before his death

"I'm begging you, let me work!" — Osamu Tezuka, Japanese cartoonist, to a nurse who tried to take away his drawing equipment

Speaker 5

Famous Last Words:

"I'm finished. I don't even trust myself." — Joseph Stalin

"I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is correct." — Dominique Bouhours, French priest and grammarian

"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart..." — Anne Frank, German diarist

Speaker 6

Famous Last Words:

"At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves." — George Orwell, English author, dying at the age of 46

“Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!” — Karl Marx, political theorist

"All the damn fool things you do in life you pay for." — Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter

Speaker 7

Famous Last Words

“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!” — Huey P. Newton, American activist

"I'm bored with it all." — Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom

"Happy." — Raphael, Italian artist