Quotes About History

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

Today is elections day and I am stepping out to help write a chapter that will form a part of my unborn children's history exam in the future.

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.