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History Quotes by Douglas MacArthur
- I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of…
- There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that…
- History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been…
- The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
- Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to…
- I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
- There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
- They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved…
- Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been…
- It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an…
- We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough