European History Quotes
12 European History quotes by 12 unique authors
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From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to…
— David Cameron
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The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and…
— Orlando Figes
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It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal…
— Herbert Butterfield
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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both…
— A J P Taylor
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With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the…
— Charles Tilly
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John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark…
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old…
— Lisel Mueller
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The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
— George Will
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Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may…
— Elliott Abrams
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I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next…
— Tony Judt
Who Wrote These European History Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 European History Quotes as follows: