Quotes About Historical figure

About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant figure. The usual way to try to do this is by publishing a thumping big biography, and let me say that there is nothing wrong with this, although it still hasn't worked.

He was the more moderate kind of nationalist. He did not sport a Kaiser Wilhelm mustache or excel at massacring Armenian civilians.

The historical St. George, an archbishop of Alexandria and a follower of Arius, possesses no features whatever of the heroic dragon-slayer of the legend.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. -- On Calvin Coolidge

Marc Bloch was born in 1886, fought in World War I,

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

One of the first Roman leaders of the north, Coelius or Coel Hen, became in English folk rhyme 'Old King Cole'.

Sentado en la biblioteca pública de Seattle, con todo el material de consulta a mi alrededor, llegué a la conclusión de que Lincoln era lo que hoy llamaríamos un psicótico maniaco-depresivo.

Pope Sixtus the Fifth?

He and Kennedy were partners. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history.

On July 13, two days after Lafayette presented his Declaration, he was elected vice president of the National Assembly. No one else possessed the charisma of "the hero of two worlds.

Who was Hitler" demanded little Tracy "He was this bloke in World War Two" explained Ben.

On August 22, Moray was proclaimed regent.

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

The monk went on to become Pope Gregory the Great,

died in 735, a generation before Offa's accession.

The most pious King Æthelstan' is how he was described on the first page of the gospel book

there seems to be no good reason to doubt that Alfred could have done at least some translating,

What people referred me as is the Father of Manitoba.

Alexander the Great is well-known as a larger-than-life king. It turns out that he was also a larger-than-life reader.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

every Chinese person is familiar with Kongzi, or 'Master Kong', as Confucius is known in Chinese.