Quotes on history

“Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.”

George Bernard Shaw

Topics: blind, creation, fury

history of this quote “Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.” by Voltaire

Topics: boredom, evils, great

history of this quote “People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.” by Voltaire

Topics: against, declaimed, history

history of this quote “Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any experienced in a town when it is under siege.” by Voltaire

Topics: blessings, cities, enjoyment

“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”

Topics: desire, heart, history

history of this quote “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.” by Ronald Reagan

Topics: attacks, especially, going

history of this quote “Do you believe that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?” by Voltaire

Topics: always, another, believe

“We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.”

Topics: american empire, history, party

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Topics: down, gorbachev, history

“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

Topics: absolution, cuban missile crisis, government

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