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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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