Quotes on history

“We’re too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We’re not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline.”

Topics: assassination, dreams, great

“No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”

Topics: arsenal, arsenals, formidable

“In your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire.”

Topics: discussions, freeze, history

“When the first President, George Washington, placed his hand upon the Bible, he stood less than a single day’s journey by horseback from raw, untamed wilderness. There were 4 million Americans in a union of 13 States. Today, we are 60 times as many in a union of 50 States. We’ve lighted the world with our inventions, gone to the aid of mankind wherever in the world there was a cry for help, journeyed to the Moon and safely returned. So much has changed, and yet we stand together as we did two centuries ago.”

Topics: first, george, history

“We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.”

Topics: another, around, assassination

“Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”

Topics: eliminate, existence, history

“What I am describing now is a plan and a hope for the long term—the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.”

Topics: belonged, describing, determined

“We’re especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, looney tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich.”

Topics: attacks, especially, going

“Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

Topics: history, next, polling

“She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.”

Topics: blushed, faltering, greeted

Archives

Categories

Archives

Categories

© Quote Me, maybe? 2026 All Rights Reserved.