History Quotes

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Colin Powell

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
James Polk

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
William Manchester

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Dante Alighieri

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 friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee

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 by war.
Douglas MacArthur

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. Terrible things.
Edward Kennedy

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse-Tung

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow