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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by pokermind   » Tue Apr 08, 2014 6:49 am

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ksandgren wrote:[SNIP quotes]

While he was a great political figure whose quotes will be used for centuries, he was also the architect of Gallipoli.


"The only way not to make a mistake is to do nothing and, if you do nothing nothing gets done," my father. Kinda close to Churchill's "Good you have enemies that means at least once in your life you took a stand."

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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by Imaginos1892   » Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:43 pm

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Thucydides wrote:
Imaginos1892 wrote:That's not how the Spartans tell it...


No, they were far more economical with words:

Got tell the Spartans,
Stranger passing by,
That here,
Obedient to their laws,
We lie

Actually, I meant that eulogy was not what the Spartans would say about the Athenians.
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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by Thucydides   » Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:22 pm

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[quote="Imaginos1892]Actually, I meant that eulogy was not what the Spartans would say about the Athenians.
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There is an interesting historical incident where the Spartans lay out their complaints against the Thebans (I believe) and the Athenians remark the Thebans have been able to do something no one else ever could: make the Spartans talkative...
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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by Michael Riddell   » Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:03 pm

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Richard Ewell, after being shot in his peg leg


Ahh, yes "Baldy" Ewell, Lee's "Bad Old Man"! 8-)

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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by Michael Riddell   » Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:19 am

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Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin.

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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by Daryl   » Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:28 am

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We don't need no education. We don't need no mind control.
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Michael Riddell wrote:"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."

Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin.

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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by John Prigent   » Wed Apr 16, 2014 2:25 pm

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I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, consider it possible that you may be wrong.

Oliver Cromwell to the Covenantors (possible misreported, of course)

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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by Michael Riddell   » Fri Apr 18, 2014 8:27 am

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"You have been sat to long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of god, go!."

Cromwell ddressing the Rump Parliament. April 1653.

A saying which I think all politicians should heed, regardless of nationality or political persuasion. :twisted:

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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by HB of CJ   » Sat Apr 19, 2014 10:57 pm

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"Damn The Torpedoes....Full Steam Ahead!" Alluded to some Union no good Yankee Admiral during another unfair successful sea and shore battle against the proud brave Confederacy during The War Between The States. He also may have said "God" before the first word, but that remains unclear. HB of CJ (old coot) :)
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Re: Your favourite historical quotes.
Post by jacjr   » Sat Apr 26, 2014 9:35 am

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Michael Riddell wrote:I thought I'd nab this idea from another forum I'm a member of. 8-)

"i had rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else."

Oliver Cromwell to Sir William Spring, September 1643.

Mike. :)


From a current WSJ Civil War book review, a contemporary visitor to recent Bull Run Battlefield:

In one unforgettable passage from a letter home, Confederate soldier Charles Minor Blackford recalls a seemingly trivial incident as he rode across the battlefield at Bull Run: "I noticed an old doll baby with only one leg lying by the side of a Federal soldier just as it dropped from his pocket when he fell writhing in the agony of death. It was obviously a memento of some little loved one at home which he had brought so far with him and had worn close to his heart on this day of danger and death. It was strange to see that emblem of childhood, that token of a father's love lying there amidst the dead and dying. . . . I dismounted, picked it up and stuffed it back into the poor fellow's cold bosom that it might rest with him in the bloody grave which was to be forever unknown to those who loved and mourned him in his distant home."
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