Historic Quotes - Page 7

• I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, Blessed, Islamic

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• The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, America, Church

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• It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

  Marc Veasey

  Rights, Appreciate, Justice

  "Celebrating LBJ’s Legacy: A Reminder of Texas’ Civil Rights Challenges Today" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

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• I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, Acceptance, People

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• You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, "Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic."

  Immortal Technique

  People, Trying, Would Be

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Thinking, Tragedy

  "Do We Achieve World Order Through Chaos or Insight". Interview With Uliane von Mittelstaedt, Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 13, 2014.

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• We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable nation. Because we're taking care of our own people, because our economy is strong and our middle class is growing, and people feel like hard work is rewarded, and we are continuing to expand opportunity and diversity and tolerance and respect.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• That's a good thing for me. I own everything, I have 100% creative control, I own all my masters, everything. I'm blessed to be in that situation. If we sell some records, I think we'll just add to the historic pace that this has been going at.

  Drake

  Blessed, Thinking, Creative

  "Wake N' Watch: Drake 'Best I Ever Had' + Exclusive Interview". Interview with Damien Scott, uk.complex.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wisdom, Mistake, Russia

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• Get it out of your historic head.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Artist

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• It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Pride, Artist, Color

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

  Bill Mollison

  People, Community, Poverty

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Hockey, Cities, Looks

  "They like us! They really like us!". Toronto Life, November 01, 2006.

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• Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

  Edmund Morris

  Eye, Hands, Violence

  Edmund Morris (2010). “Theodore Rex”, p.60, Random House

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• The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Men, Issues, Freedom Of Speech

  Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 1967.

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• Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

  Shimon Peres

  Justice, Done, Killing

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• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

  Samantha Power

  Summer, War, Israel

  Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

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• We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed.

  Michael Corbat

  Strong, Unique, Play

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• When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.

  James M Strock

  Excellence, Comfort, Mediocrity

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• Dr. [Martin Luther] King led a very historic march here in Washington, D.C. It was a march for jobs and freedom. It was a march to raise expectations that this country could live up to its ideals. I have watched this debate, this conversation [betwin Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump] about bigotry, about racism, I find it all misplaced.

  Donna Brazile

  Country, Kings, Jobs

  "Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance after World War II - with a giant army, an enormous population, and its globally superior economic power. This role is quite different for Germany today.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  War, Army, Example

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro).

  John B. Quigley

  Moving, Ambition, Mean

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• I do think that she [Hillary Clinton] will prove that she's the best, whether she's in the White House or somewhere else. I think it will very much be a historic moment, when we are able to say that we actually have done something like put a woman in the White House. Its very interesting to think about considering its taken us long as it has.

  Madeleine Albright

  Taken, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• Surfing is all about living in the moment. When you walk out on the Sydney Cricket Ground to play cricket you're intensely aware of the history of the sport; you're playing on this historic ground surrounded by pictures of the legends. With surfing, you just dive into the water and paddle out and catch waves.

  Nick Carroll

  Sports, Play, Water

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• In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our way. She heightened the sense of social conscience in the New Deal generally. To her great credit, she was early on the side of the blacks in their fight for civil rights. She had a tendency to participate, which easily oozed over into meddlesomeness.

  William A. Rusher

  Fighting, Rights, Legacy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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