Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Johann Wolfgang von Goethe About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”- Goethe b. 1749 CE – d. 1832 CE Considered the greatest German literary figure of...
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Thomas Jefferson About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life,...
Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Thomas Paine About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now,...
John Adams

John Adams

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION John Adams About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of...
Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Edmund Burke About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”- Burke b. 1729 CE – d. 1797 CE A British statesman and political writer, Edmund...