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The Most Memorable Comments and Observations of Modern European History

 

The Least Insightful Quotes in European History

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Louis XVI's diary entry for July 14, 1789 (Bastille Day) Rien. (Nothing)
Pope Leo X Luther is a drunken German.  He will think differently when he is sober.
Neville Chamberlain on the Munich Conference I believe it is peace for our time.
Hitler [Thousand year Reich?]

 

The Coolest Quotes in Modern European History

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Danton to his executioner Be sure and show my head to the people.  It's worth seeing.
Elizabeth I I have no wish to build windows into men's souls.
   

 

The Greatest Prognostications in Modern European History

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Otto von Bismarck on the cause of the next European war Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch on the Treaty of Versailles This isn't a peace, it's a twenty year truce.
  No, sire.  It is a revolution.

 

The Greatest Apocryphal Quotes in Modern European History

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Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms Here I stand.  I cannot do otherwise.  God help me.  Amen.
Marie Antoinette Let them eat cake.
Louis XIV L'etat, c'est moi.

 

The Least Upbeat Quotes in  Modern European History

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Thomas Hobbes on life in the state of nature Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
   

 

The Most Pitiful Quotes in Modern European History

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Galileo after recanting his Copernican teachings E pur si muove. (And yet it moves.)
Napoleon Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
   

 

The Least Sensitive Quotes in Modern European History

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Philip II on learning of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre Ha ha.
Joseph Stalin A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Johnny Rotten I wanna destroy the passerby.

 

The Pithiest Quotes in Modern European History

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Emile Zola J'accuse!
Francis Bacon Knowledge is power.
Rene Descartes Cogito, ergo sum.
Oliver Cromwell upon viewing the corpse of Charles I Cruel necessity.

 

The Most Ironic Quotes in Modern European History

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Adolf Hitler The task which Christ began but did not finish, I will complete.
Henry of Navarre Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.
   

 

The Pope's Least Favorite Quotes in Modern European History

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Friedrich Nietzsche God is dead.
Henry of Navarre Paris is worth a mass.
Voltaire Crush the infamous thing..
John Lennon on the Beatles We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

 

Winston Churchill's Top 10 Greatest Quotes

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W.C. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
W.C. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
W.C. I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
W.C. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
W.C. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
W.C. There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
W.C. Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
W.C. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
W.C. To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
Lady Astor and W.C. Lady Astor: "If you were my husband, I would feed you poison."
W.C.: "If you were my wife, madam, I would take it!"

 

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