Quotes on history

“We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.”

Winston Churchill

Topics: entirely, fail, faltering

“What is our policy?… To wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.”

Winston Churchill

Topics: against, history, monstrous

“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”

G. K. Chesterton

Topics: badly, erich, governed

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

Topics: consists, disciplined, dislike

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.”

Topics: almost, forgivingly, history

“They died to save their country and they only saved the world.”

Topics: country, died, history

“Neither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either.”

Topics: beverly, deprived, faith

“They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.”

G. K. Chesterton

Topics: broadens, chesterton, history

“Fallacies, which do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

Topics: because, cease, fallacies

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

Topics: christianity, history, ideal

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