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2006-07-19 07:54:50 · 21 answers · asked by constanze_mylove 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." Winston Churchill
2006-07-19 09:21:07 · answer #1 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 9⤊ 1⤋
'I Am Not A Number, Im A Person'
The Prisoner, not a historical figure, but a cult one.
'We shall fight them on the beaches, We shall fight them on the Seas..We shall fight them in the hills and tress, in the fields and villages..We shall neevr surrender'
Gotta be Winston Churchill
'I Have Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds...My God, What Have I Done'
Oppenheimer, the man who invented the conventional Atomic Warhead, on hearing of the news of its use over Hiroshima
My Personal Favourite
'War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children'
President Jimmy Carter
2006-07-19 10:13:47 · answer #2 · answered by thomas p 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gen. John Sedgewick: Union commander in the yank Civil warfare, shot on the conflict of Spotsylvania court docket abode in 1864 on an identical time as looking over a parapet on the enemy lines "They could no longer hit an elephant at this dist..."
2016-10-08 02:32:34 · answer #3 · answered by huenke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know I have the body of a week and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and a king of England too. And think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm
Elizabeth 1
2006-07-19 09:38:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." JFK
"I'd rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome." Gaius Julius Caesar
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln
"If there must be trouble then let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine
2006-07-19 12:15:55 · answer #5 · answered by Nico Pulcher 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John F Kennedy: "I am a jelly doughnut" (ich bin ein berliner.)
historical, if poorly translated, quote from a speech he gave in germany.
2006-07-19 13:02:15 · answer #6 · answered by cyphercube 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody has the right to stupidity but some people abuse the privilege.
Josef Stalin
2006-07-19 18:53:49 · answer #7 · answered by Spartan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
2006-07-19 08:09:39 · answer #8 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Et to Brutus",From William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
2006-07-19 19:39:45 · answer #9 · answered by timgsweet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Government cannot be the solution to our problems...government IS the problem. - Ronald Reagan
The best government is the one that does not govern at all! - David Henry Toreough
2006-07-19 07:57:53 · answer #10 · answered by dude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo, Italian Astronomer & Mathematician
2006-07-19 08:13:33 · answer #11 · answered by Dennis O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋