Quotes on history

history of this quote “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.” by Ronald Reagan

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history of this quote “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.” by Ronald Reagan

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history of this quote “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?” by Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan
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history of this quote “Those who say that we’re in a time when there are not heroes, they just don’t know where to look.” by Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan
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“I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”

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“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”

Oscar Wilde
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“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

George Bernard Shaw
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“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”

George Bernard Shaw
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“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”

George Bernard Shaw
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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw
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