what is ur favorite quote in the history?

Question

for me i love the quote which is said by salah el dine the religon is for God and the nation is for all also i like the quote which Gamal Abd El Nasser said (the promise is from man who dont own it (which is not his) to ppl who dont desreve it)

Answer 1

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." John F. Kennedy

"That's one small step for man... One giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong

Answer 2

Theodore Roosevelt has been mentioned here more than once already, here’s a favorite of mine, given the current times in which we in the US live.

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star
May 7, 1918




Here’s one from John F. Kennedy, from a larger speech.

“So, let us not be blind to our differences -- but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”

Commencement Address at American University in Washington
June 10, 1963




On a somewhat more humorous note, I like British Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s quote, who was a representative of the UK at the Paris Peace Conference following the First World War, when asked how he thought things had gone.

“Not bad, considering I was sitting between Jesus Christ and Napoleon”. (Talking about US President Woodrow Wilson and French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau.)




And of course, there is US Sen. Lloyd Bentsen’s raping of Dan Quayle, live on national TV.

“Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy: I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy”. (Sen. Bentsen’s retort to Quayle, who had been comparing himself to Kennedy during the televised debate.)

Answer 3

Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
(George Santayana, "Life of Reason", vol. I, ch. XII, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905)

"It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible."
(Mark Twain, quoted in "Mark Twain in eruption: Hitherto unpublished pages about men and events", Harper, 1940)

"Those who fail history are doomed to repeat it."
(Middleton High School billboard from Disney's "Kim Possible")
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
(H. G. Wells, "The Outline of History", George Newnes Limited, 1920)

Answer 4

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Ronald Reagan

Answer 5

“There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by circumstance to meet.”

-Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr.

Answer 6

"Those who cast the Votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything." - Josef Stalin

from _The Memoirs of former Stalin's secretary_ (1992) by Boris Bazhanov [Saint Petersburg]

Sometimes quoted as ... "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

Answer 7

The history of the whole world, is the history of a few persons who had "faith in themselves." =Swami Vivekananda=

Answer 8

This is a great question*- oh dear, i have os many quotes that i just lovee. haha but the one that i say the most would probubly be
" practice what you preech"
i sometimes catch me telling myself that!* haha

Answer 9

"history is a pack of lies agreed upon" - Napolean

"To not know what happened before your time is to forever remain a child" - Cicero

"I am in hell" - british admiral

"Well then, I shall be a hero" - Lord Nelson

Answer 10

Too many but this is one of the top ones,
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as the most brutal warmonger."
-Teddy Roosevelt