Quotations about History

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17 Quotes Found

"Waterloo was a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second."
	-Victor Hugo, Author, in Les Miserables
"I am not a crook."
	-Richard Nixon, Thirty-seventh President of the United States
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
	-Neil Armstrong, First man on the moon, First words spoken on the moon.
"Here am I, the wretched city, lying in ruins, my citizens dead... you who pass me by bewail my fate, and shed a tear in honor of Berytus that is no more."
	-Unknown 6th century poet
"West Went Thataway, East."
	- "Life" magazine, 1966-01-07
"'Tis better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt."
	-Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States
"Whereas . . ."
	-John C. Calhoun, Politician and failed Presidential candidate, Full text of the only poem the South Carolinian Civil War legislator ever wrote.
"You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife until she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on a shanty of a consul in a foreign town."
	-O. Henry
"If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot."
	-John A. Dix, 1861-01-29
"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them."
	-Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France
"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."
	-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), British prime minister during WWII
"Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances."
	-Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Thirty-fourth President of the United States
"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
	-Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Third President of the United States, principal author of the Declaration of Independence
"Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived."
	-Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States
"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."
	-Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Twenty-sixth President of the United States, referring to Luke 12:48
"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
	-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), United Nations diplomat, humanitarian, United States First Lady