History(163)

"The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?"
Gerald R. Ford

"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
John W. Gardner

"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial."
Charles de Gaulle

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."
Charles de Gaulle

"How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?"
Charles de Gaulle

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
Edward Gibbon

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

"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."
Dick Gregory

"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."
William Halsey

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
Frank Herbert