History Quotes

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"Uncommon Valor was a common virtue."
FADM Nimitz about Iwo

"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!! !! !"
Patrick Henry's replied to British Taxes that caused American Revolution

"I lose my right arm."

Robert E. Lee's statement about the death of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

FDR

"I had a dream."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. "

Queen Elizabeth II

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
-Winston Churchill praising the pilots who won the Battle Of Britain

"There is properly no History : only Biography" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet" - Abraham Lincoln

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much"

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation"

Both above by Oscar Wilde.

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all" - Winston Churchill