Figures

People we keep on the record.

Each figure's page holds verbatim lines, dated and linked to their sources. Historical and public-domain figures come first; every entry carries a citation, and any reader can challenge one.

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1882–19452

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd President. Led the United States through the Great Depression and most of World War II.

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The reference corpus

Authors indexed from Bartlett's 1905 and Wikiquote — cited reference lines, distinct from the curated registry. Curated figures above carry their corpus lines too.

1874–1965292

Winston Churchill

British statesman, wartime prime minister, and Nobel laureate in Literature. Half the sharp remarks of the twentieth century get attributed to him; the reference corpus keeps to the lines with a citation attached.

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Verbatim only

Every figure entry uses the exact words as reported by a citable source. We don't paraphrase, condense, or invent. If an entry is wrong or there's a better source, open the figure's page and use the correction form — every change is logged in public.