History Quotes - Page 36

• Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Motivational, Law

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• Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Long

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• Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

  Charles William Eliot

  Adversity, Delight, Ease

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• A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Battle, Sometimes

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• Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Progress, Needs, Should

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Diplomatic, Knows

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• We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Compassion, Dedication, Weapons

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• The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

  Warren E. Burger

  Scales, Communicate, Persons

  "Rowan v. Post Office Dept., 397 U.S. 728". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 4, 1970.

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• In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Dark, Men

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• We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

  James K. Polk

  Destiny, People, Principles

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• For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution.

  Zachary Taylor

  Integrity, Half, Unions

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• In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.

  Franklin Pierce

  Views, Important, Ambitious

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• The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

  Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

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• The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

  Herbert Hoover

  Greatness, America, Political

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Order, Working Together

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

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• If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Giving, Democracy, Hardship

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Healing, Winning, Opportunity

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.4, Best Books on

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• Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.

  Jimmy Carter

  Dream, Two, Long

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Working Man, Chamberlain

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

  George W. Bush

  Dark, People, Achievement

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Men, Stuff

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.

  William L. Shirer

  Sorry, Evil, People

  William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

  William L. Shirer

  Drunk, Imagination, People

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• Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.

  Mary Fulbrook

  Democracy, Republic, Helping

  Mary Fulbrook (2014). “A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

  Voltaire

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

  1759 Candide, ch.30.

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