Quotes on history

“To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.”

Shakespeare
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“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

Shakespeare
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“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”

Theodore Roosevelt
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.”

Mark Twain
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“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

Mark Twain
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“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

Mark Twain
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“True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.”

Mark Twain
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“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”

Mark Twain
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“In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

Mark Twain
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“All kings is mostly rapscallions.”

Mark Twain
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