| Quote 4 | An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. |
| Quote 9 | Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. |
| Quote 42 | A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. |
| Quote 46 | Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. |
| Quote 80 | Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. |
| Quote 124 | Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his ... |
| Quote 185 | Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terribl... |
| Quote 198 | Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best frie... |
| Quote 208 | Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. |
| Quote 287 | Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. |
| Quote 314 | A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. |
| Quote 376 | A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. |
| Quote 383 | Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded ... |
| Quote 457 | Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. |
| Quote 751 | History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. |
| Quote 977 | Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. |
| Quote 1190 | Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. |
| Quote 1489 | 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. |
| Quote 1570 | Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. |
| Quote 1992 | Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Quote 2192 | I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. |
| Quote 3363 | I came, I saw, I conquered.
- Julius Caesar |
| Quote 3926 | History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford |
| Quote 4198 | History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. |
| Quote 6300 | We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. |
| Quote 7600 | To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. |
| Quote 7641 | The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. |
| Quote 7739 | Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. |
| Quote 7758 | History never looks like history when you are living through it. |
| Quote 7792 | What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Quote 7840 | Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. |
| Quote 7853 | No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. |
| Quote 7862 | You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. |
| Quote 7920 | Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. |
| Quote 7935 | Time is my greatest enemy.
- Evita Peron |
| Quote 7949 | The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. |
| Quote 8034 | It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. |
| Quote 8060 | The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. |
| Quote 8085 | All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a cert... |
| Quote 8169 | We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of... |
| Quote 8210 | It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. |
| Quote 8246 | The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. |
| Quote 8258 | The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be wi... |
| Quote 8326 | The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine t... |
| Quote 8442 | They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. |
| Quote 8444 | The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. |
| Quote 8517 | Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. |
| Quote 8566 | In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers sho... |
| Quote 8567 | History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. |
| Quote 8599 | The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. |
| Quote 8657 | To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest groun... |
| Quote 8678 | Failure is impossible.
- Susan B. Anthony |
| Quote 8718 | Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. |
| Quote 8820 | The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. |
| Quote 8868 | Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. |
| Quote 9013 | Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. |
| Quote 9048 | I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one... |
| Quote 9057 | There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. |
| Quote 9071 | What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the ... |
| Quote 9090 | It's a very good historical book about history. |
| Quote 9177 | Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. |
| Quote 9187 | We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won... |
| Quote 9203 | The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increase... |
| Quote 9258 | The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. |
| Quote 9274 | Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic r... |
| Quote 9323 | It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. |
| Quote 9433 | God cannot alter the past, though historians can. |
| Quote 9453 | In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect... |
| Quote 9644 | I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. |
| Quote 9714 | September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. |
| Quote 9797 | Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. |
| Quote 9806 | That great dust-heap called 'history'. |
| Quote 9993 | France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been br... |
| Quote 9994 | The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who ha... |
| Quote 10022 | You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm in... |
| Quote 10106 | I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. |
| Quote 10150 | We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not res... |
| Quote 10177 | If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. |
| Quote 10190 | Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. |
| Quote 10229 | History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins |
| Quote 10255 | Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. |
| Quote 10276 | The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in Ameri... |
| Quote 10346 | To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. |
| Quote 10395 | I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, an... |
| Quote 10491 | The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. |
| Quote 10506 | Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. |
| Quote 10524 | The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. |
| Quote 10555 | Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. |
| Quote 10566 | We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. |
| Quote 10634 | If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse... |
| Quote 10771 | Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. |
| Quote 10817 | Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
| Quote 10833 | The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. |
| Quote 10897 | If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the... |
| Quote 10992 | World War II was the last government program that really worked. |
| Quote 10993 | One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. |
| Quote 11017 | Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function o... |
| Quote 11115 | History is a vision of God's creation on the move. |
| Quote 11212 | The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. |
| Quote 11276 | They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. |
| Quote 11325 | I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. |
| Quote 11464 | Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. |
| Quote 11610 | People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. |
| Quote 11633 | History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. |
| Quote 11810 | Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. |
| Quote 11877 | We learned the value of research in World War II. |
| Quote 11939 | When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. |
| Quote 12028 | You have to look at history as an evolution of society. |
| Quote 12082 | I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. |
| Quote 12139 | It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. |
| Quote 12191 | Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining pro... |
| Quote 12236 | Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. |
| Quote 12275 | Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. |
| Quote 12347 | The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. |
| Quote 12382 | Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. |
| Quote 12427 | The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. |
| Quote 12455 | The future has a way of arriving unannounced. |
| Quote 12491 | Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. |
| Quote 12504 | History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. |
| Quote 12519 | It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. |
| Quote 12549 | This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. |
| Quote 12666 | If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swi... |
| Quote 12713 | History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. |
| Quote 12741 | They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. |
| Quote 12766 | I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go ou... |
| Quote 12836 | History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. |
| Quote 12978 | History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly f... |
| Quote 12983 | People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. |
| Quote 13264 | Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
- H. L. Mencken |
| Quote 13311 | The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occ... |
| Quote 13430 | Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. |
| Quote 13461 | Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't ... |
| Quote 13486 | History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. |
| Quote 13840 | History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. |
| Quote 13884 | Libraries are not made, they grow.
- Augustine Birrell |