Quotes On World History.

The past contains so many interesting insights.

" There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. "
Sir Francis Drake ( c.1540-1596 )

" A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. "
James I / James VI of Scotland ( 1566-1625 ) Counter-blast to Tobacco

" Remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me; otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. "
Oliver Cromwell ( 1599-1658 )

" History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. "
Alexis de Tocqueville ( 1805-1859 )

" The absent are always in the wrong. "
Philippe Nericault Destouches ( 1680-1754 )

" Drive out prejudices through the door, and they will return through the window. "
Frederick the Great ( 1712-1786 ) Letter to Voltaire March 19th 1771

" Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination. "
Immanuel Kant ( 1724-1804 )

" Necessity never made a good bargain. "
Benjamin Franklin ( 1706-1790 )

" There never was a good war, or a bad peace. "
Benjamin Franklin ( 1706-1790 )

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