Great+Quotes

This is simply a dedication to those people who have mastered the English language in such a way that reading what they've written is either inspiring, moving, or thought-provoking. At best, you read this and it gets you motivated to, say, finish that paper for social studies that you've been putting off. At worst, some of these could probably make wicked openers for that social studies paper you've been putting off.

__Motivation__
We do not know very much of the future Except that from generation to generation The same things happen again and again. Men learn little from others' experience. But in the life of one man, never The same time returns. Sever The cord, shed the scale. Only The fool, fixed in his folly, may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. -Archbishop of Canterbury, "Murder in the Cathedral"

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck   Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. -Paulo Coelho

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. -William Arthur Ward

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. -Howard Ruff It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried. -Winston Churchill If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. -Will Rogers

__Regarding Learning__
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. -Khalil Gibran

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. -Voltaire

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. -Francis Bacon

Somewhere, something amazing is waiting to be discovered. -Carl Sagan

__History through the Renaissance/Reformation__
The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. -Petrarch

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. -Leonardo da Vinci

[Victims] eat lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise. -Boccaccio, on the Black Plague

Fortune favors the audacious. -Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation. -Erasmus

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows one, merit obtains the other. -Petrarch

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. -John Calvin

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. -Martin Luther

**__Unit 2- Absolute Monarchs__**
God, who has given me so many Kingdoms to govern, has not given me a son fit to govern them. -Philip II of Spain

You had better have one king than five hundred. -Charles II of England

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. -Charles II of England

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods. -James I of England

**__Unit 3 - Scientific Revolution__**
But it DOES move. -Galileo Galilei

**__Unit 4 - French Revolution__**
I do not believe in what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. -Voltaire

You can't make an ommelette without breaking a few eggs. -Maximilien Robespierre

Pity is treason. -Maximilien Robespierre

**__Unit 5 - The Age of "Isms": Industrialism, Liberalism, Nationalism__**
When France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold. -Prince Klemens von Metternich

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop. -Charles de Gaulle, on Bismarck's 1870 decision to halt German forces short of Paris

**__Unit 6 - Imperialism__**
Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity. -Lord Kitchener

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster. -Margot Asquith

I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly, and carry a big stick. -Theodore Roosevelt

[Africa]...that magnificent cake. -Leopold II of Belgium

**__Unit 7 - World War I__**
The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time. -Sir Edward Grey, 3 Aug 1914

The most persistent sound that reverberates throughout men's history is the sound of war drums -Arthur Koestler

Graveyards are full of indispensible men. -Charles de Gaulle

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination. -General Sir Douglas Haig

**__Unit 8 - Russian Revolution, More Nationalism, and the Rise of Dictators__**
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic. -Joseph Stalin

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock. -Will Rogers

A good sword is the one left in its scabbard. -Japanese Proverb

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts. -Herbert Hoover

Don't forget what I discovered, that over 90% of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. -Franklin Roosevelt

It is good for leaders that men do not think. -Adolf Hitler

**__Unit 9 - World War II__**
I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven. -Winston Churchill

Never in the course of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. -Winston Churchill on the RAF at the Battle of Britain

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices. -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory! -Joseph Stalin

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue. -Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

 Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. Twenty- five... - MORE Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. Twenty- five years ago American fighting men looked to the statesmen of the world to finish the work of peace for which they fought and suffered; we failed them, we failed them then, we cannot fail them again and expect the world to survive again. -Franklin Roosevelt

**__Unit 10 - Post-1945__**
Within five years we’ll have 300,000 men in the paddies and jungles and never find them again. -George Ball, advising President Kennedy not to send soldiers to Vietnam, 1961

__Unit 1 - Introduction to Sociology__
I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling. -Mohandas Gandhi

__Unit 2 - Culture__
I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling. -Mohandas Gandhi

I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe. -Morgan Spurlock

__Unit 3 - Socialization and Deviance__
Ultimately, isn't it other people's reactions to us that makes us who we are? -Special Agent Fox Mulder, F.B.I.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are few better measures for how a society treats its individual members than how it treats its criminals. -Ramsey Clark

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. -Voltaire