It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen. Horatio Nelson
To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was' (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. Walter Benjamin
We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs. Carl Sagan
I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise. We live in a peaceful, prosperous time, but we can make it better. George H. W. Bush
It is fourteen years ago since yourself, then the leader of the country gentlemen...appealed to me to assist you at a moment of apparently overwhelming disaster. I ultimately agreed to do so...because, from my earliest years, my sympathies had been with the landed interest of England. Benjamin Disraeli
It is a decision that could have been made only at a moment in time when reason was playing a sharply diminished role in our national deliberations. Al Gore