Hey Yall
K so here's the deal, I'm doing an essay on how we view history so i'm looking for some good quotes. i like the cs lewis, john stynback style and i was just wondering if you guys had any good ones for me!
2006-09-17 14:07:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." - Simeon Strunsky
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. " - JFK
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars." - FDR
"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go today?" - Mary Morrissey
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
"They stopped talking. We must never stop talking." - Ron Maxwell on the Civil War
2006-09-17 16:21:28 · answer #1 · answered by Hidden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Four items:
"...If you would have peace, prepare for war" Julius Ceasar
"The only thing man never learns from history is, that man never learns from history" Edmund Burke
"History is a set of lies agreed upon" Napoleon Bonaparte
"God will not alter the past, but, historians will" Samuel Butler
2006-09-17 21:29:56 · answer #2 · answered by dragunov 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let them eat cake - Marie Antoinette - French Revolution
Peace in Our Time - Clement Attlee the British Prime Minister, meeting with Hitler, just before WWII!
2006-09-18 03:23:40 · answer #3 · answered by Breeze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
Joseph Stalin
hey cream, just so you know she never said "let them eat cake" the lower class made that up to make her look stupid for future generations
2006-09-17 21:20:07 · answer #4 · answered by gets flamed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Veni, vidi, vici.
The Roman Army battle cry against the Barbarians
2006-09-17 21:31:05 · answer #5 · answered by Sir Torex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
Think about this quote in context of being said after he discovered what he brought to the world... (you can look it up)
2006-09-17 21:45:32 · answer #6 · answered by mama_bears_den 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oderint du'um metuant (let them hate me so long as they fear me) - Caligula
I have a dream... - Matin Luther King
"I think, therefore I am"
"Eureka" - Archimedes
"All the world's a stage & all the men & women merely players" - Shakespeare
2006-09-18 09:48:50 · answer #7 · answered by Kevin F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I can resist anything save temptation" - Oscar Wilde
"Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great" - Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar"
"I wouldn't belong to any group that would have me for a member" - Groucho Marx
2006-09-18 10:33:32 · answer #8 · answered by Joe R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two famous history quotes that come readily to mind are:
"The only thing we have to fear is, fear itself!"
-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." -- President John F. Kennedy
2006-09-17 21:12:47 · answer #9 · answered by Kami 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."---George Santayana
2006-09-17 21:10:14 · answer #10 · answered by Scout Finch 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋