History(163)

"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."
Tacitus

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
Margaret Thatcher

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
Margaret Thatcher

"It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there."
Margaret Thatcher

"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."
Margaret Thatcher

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

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
Arnold J. Toynbee

"History is a vision of God's creation on the move."
Arnold J. Toynbee

"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."
Harry S. Truman

"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
Barbara Tuchman