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Famous Economic Quotes |
 A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future. Robert A. Heinlein War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord It is harder to preserve than obtain liberty. John C. Calhoun Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of everyone to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere in the world. Franklin D. Roosevelt The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. Dwight D. Eisenhower If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Thomas Paine When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. Franklin D. Roosevelt Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell We grow great by dreams ... Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. Woodrow Wilson And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. John Fitzgerald Kennedy We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. George Bernard Shaw I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton, Jr. Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Mahatma Gandhi A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. Ronald Reagan I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion: and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me, God. CONGRESSIONAL OATH OF OFFICE Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public office save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. Theodore Roosevelt This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved. Benjamin Franklin This nation can never be conquered from without. If it is ever to fall it will be from within. President Abraham Lincoln All socialism involves slavery. Herbert Spencer Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. Chief Justice John Marshall Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight. John F. Kennedy at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it. Mark Twain Let men not ask what the law
requires, but give whatever freedom demands. The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. Adolf Hitler Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. David Ben Gurion History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David C. McCullough History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Karl Marx History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. Georges Clemenceau Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. Ronald Reagan History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstance. Donald Creighton, Canadian historian (1902-1979) I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. Harry S. Truman
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