Historic Quotes

• There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Civilization, Political

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1967). “Love and justice: selections from the shorter writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”

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• To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Eye, Males, Female

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• NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard; in our historic territory. I simply cannot imagine that we would travel to Sevastopol to visit NATO sailors. Of course, most of them are wonderful guys, but it would be better to have them come and visit us, be our guests, rather than the other way round.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Military, Home

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• The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

  Leon Trotsky

  Nature, Taken, Men

  Leon Trotsky (1980). “The History of the Russian Revolution”, Anchor Foundation

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• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Thought Provoking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

  Warren Buffett

  Learning, People, History

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• Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mean, History, Done

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• The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

  Elbridge Gerry

  America, People, Evil

  Constitutional Convention, May 31, 1787.

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• Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.

  Rob Lowe

  Sports, Jobs, Memories

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• Your Heavenly Father loves you-each of you. That love never changes. It is not influenced by your appearance, by your possessions, or by the amount of money you have in your bank account. It is not changed by your talents and abilities. It is simply there. It is there for you when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God's love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Love You, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Aug 07, 2015

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• Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

  Pope Paul VI

  Two, Armament, Difficult

  Sermon by Pope Paul VI at the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal (May 13, 1967), as reported in The New York Times (p. 47), May 14, 1967.

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• Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

  Vladimir Putin

  Second Chance, Russia, Roots

  "Russia after Yeltsin". Book by Vladimir M. Tikhomirov, 2001.

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• I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

  Chris Matthews

  Spiritual, Voice, Leader

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Barack Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

  Alveda King

  Opportunity, Missing, African American

  "Here's Hoping Herman Cain Will Stay In the Race" by Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2011.

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• The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

  Michael Chabon

  Father, Lows, Standards

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments. They say the food is excellent

  Suzanne Collins

  Vacation, Games, Months

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

  Saul Bellow

  Ideas, People, Mad

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, Opportunity, Peaceful

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• We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

  Dean Koontz

  Tragedy, Cocktails, Olives

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.219, Bantam

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• Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

  Howard Zinn

  Juxtaposition, Crosses, Gallows

  Howard Zinn, Donaldo Macedo (2016). “Howard Zinn on Democratic Education”, p.82, Routledge

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• Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm — hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  Sarah Vowell

  Country, War, Mean

  "Assassination Vacation". Book by Sarah Vowell, www.npr.org. March 2005.

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• America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

  John le Carre

  America, Literature, Madness

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• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

  Carl Jung

  Islamic, Drunk, Germany

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings”

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