Famous Quotes From History

Okay, I'll start:


(1) Let them eat cake.



Maggie
(who is posting this to help her daughter with a history paper...)

Ok then, here are the biggest lies in history:

1) I am not a crook. --Richard Nixon, Former US President

2) I did not have sexual relations with that woman. --Bill Clinton, Former US President

3) We will win that war. --George W. Bush, Former US President

3) I didn't have any plastic surgery. --Micheal Jackson, Former Good Singer

1) Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die.

2) United we stand, divided we fall.

3) Give us liberty or give us death.

I cannot but lament . . . the impending Calamities Britain and her Colonies are about to suffer, from great Imprudencies on both Sides -- Passion governs, and she never governs wisely -- Anxiety begins to disturb my Rest . . .
~~~~~ Benjamin Franklin - February 5, 1775 ~~~~~


"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hand separately."
~~~~~ Benjamin Franklin ~ At the Signing of The Declaration of Independence! ~~~~~

Nothing of importance happened today.
~~~~~ King George III in his diary - July 4, 1776 ~~~~~

“Those who would trade essential liberties for temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security.”
-- Benjamin Franklin =P

oooohhhh, i *knew* you guys wouldn't let me down!


keep 'em coming! LOL

maggie

Not an historical quote, but my favorite saying of my mother.

"Be not like a mirror reflecting all that you see"

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If everybody is thinking alike,
then somebody isn't thinking."---Patton

"Nothing is that thinking doesn't make it so"
---Shakespeare

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
---Socrates

"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait, and waiting died."
---George Cecil

"We are not retreating- we are advancing in another direction."
---General Douglas Mac Arthur

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" Hitch your wagon to a star." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An unjust law is a human law not rooted in eternal law & natural law.
Any law that uplifts human personality is just;
any law that degrades human personality is unjust."
---St Thomas Aquinas

"But, Master! I only went into town for one beer."

Frakenstein's Monster

"...The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..." treaty with Tripoli, passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate and signed by president Adams on June 10, 1797

"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by ficticious miracles." - John Adams (in a letter to Thomas Jefferson)

"Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religious wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?" - Thomas Paine

'Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." Thomas Jefferson in a letter to his nephew, Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

"During almost 15 centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been it's fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both superstition, bigotry, and persecution." - James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, addressed to the Virginia General Assembly, 1785

"The purpose of the separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." - James Madison, 1803 letter objecting to the use of government land for churches.

"I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States" - Thomas Edison

"Missionarying - the least excusable of all human trades." - Mark Twain

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln

"Being an adult is just like being a kid, except you have more responsibilities." - Jim Morrison

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -Pablo Picasso

"Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe." - Albert Einstein

"The journey is the reward." - Taoist Saying

"Go away, I'm all right." - The last words of H.G. Wells

"if you go out on that thing and break your legs, don't come running to me!" - My mum, when I bought my first skateboard

"in waking a tiger, use a long stick." MAO TSE-TUNG

"dear Lord, give me chastity and self-restraint....but not yet, O Lord, not yet!" Saint Augustine

"careful planning is the key to safe and swift travel" Ulysses

"attention to detail is the watchword for gleaning information from an unsuspecting witness" insp. clouseau


"in times of crisis, it is of utmost importance not to lose ones head" M. Antoinette

"to function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader" Capt. Bligh (retired)

still bored, one more.....



"one of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people" G. Khan

Not to find an answer...
just to hear the call
Of a nightbird...singing...
come away...come away...

Stevie Nicks




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more 'maybe nots'....


"one must deal openly and fairly with ones forces if maximum effectiveness is to be achieved" D. Vader



"anyone who uses the phrase 'taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby" R. Hood

"I can't recall ..."
-Former US President Ronald Reagan

"Virtue is to be feared more than vice because it's excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience"
-Adam Smith

"The difference between a tragedy and a calamity? Suppose Mr Gladstone were to fall into the Thames — it would be a tragedy. Now, imagine someone were to pull him out — that would be a calamity."
Benjamin Disraeli, British Politician and novelist (First Earl of Beaconsfield) 1804-1881

nice choices AP

NEXT........

"I'm the master of low expectations."
—George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

here are two of my favorite - not quite so famous but...

* journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive - G.K. Chesterton

* I set myself on fire, and people come to watch me burn - john wesley, protestant orator

"Lay your sleeping head, my love, / Human on my faithless arm,"
-- W. H. Auden

"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
-- Walt Whitman, 'Leaves of Grass', later made famous in 'Dead Poets Society'

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
-- Pablo Picasso

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
-- Anne Frank

"Age before beauty."
"Pearls before swine."
-- exchange between Clare Booth Luce and Dorothy Parker, in that order, when working out order of precedence through a door.

"And really bad eggs. Drink up me 'arties. Yo ho" - Jack Sparrow

All from Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire):

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

And from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, two of my favorite entries:

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to
infest the whole habitable earh and Canada.

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.