history Quotes

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.