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Friday, October 24, 2008

Quotes that changed the world

These are several important historical figures that influence our life and changed the course of the world.
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."- Moses. The Ten Commandments, Exodus 20, 1-17
"Blessed are the poor in spirit:for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."-- Jesus of Nazareth, The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7
"The scientific history of radium is beautiful."--Marie Curie,On the discovery of radium, Vassae College, New York 14 May 1921
"I believe in the law of love."--Clarence Darrow, Closing speech in defence of Henry Sweet, April 1926
"my patience is now at an end."--Adolf Hitler, Speech at the Sportpalast,Berlin,26 September 1938.
"I am from now on just first soldier of the German Reich."--Speech to the Reichstag,Berlin, 1 september 1939
"I have nothing to offer but blood,toil,tears, and sweat."--Sir Winston Churchill, House of Commons,London,13 May 1940
"This was their finest hour."-- House of Commons,London, 18 June 1940
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."-- House of Commons,London,20 August 1940
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."--Franklin D.Roosevelt, Inaugural address, 4 March 1933
"A date which will live in infamy."-- Speech to Congress,8 December 1941
"The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die."-- Charles de Gaulle, Appeal of 18 June 1940
"I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler."--General George S. Patton Jr, Speech to the US Third Army on the eve of D-Day, 5 June 1944
"The enemy has begun to emply a new and most cruel bomb."-- Emperor Hiroshito, The surrender of Japan, August 1945
"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."--Jawaharlal Nehru, Speech on the granting of Indian Independence, 14 August 1947
"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom"
--Jawaharlal Nehru, Speech on the granting of Indian Independence, 14 August 1947
"The reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity."-- J.Robert Oppenheimer,Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2 November 1945
"I have just left your fighting sons in Korea. They are splendid in every way."-- General Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address to Congress,Washington,19 April 1951
"I am the First Accused."--Nelson Mandela,Pretoria,20 April 1964
"Free at last!",Johannesburg,2 May 1994
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." -- John F. Kennedy,Inaugural address, Washington, 20 January 1961
"I have a dream."-- Martin Luther King,Jr, Lincoln Memorial,Washington DC, 28 August 1963
"I've seen the promised land."--Memphis,Tennessee, 3 April 1968
"You can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree."-- Malcolm X, Detroit, 14 February 1965
"Woman's education is almost more important than the education of boys and men."- Indira Gandhi, New Delhi,23 November 1974
"Love begins at home."-- Mother Teresa, Speech on receiving the Nobel Prize, Oslo Norway, 11 December 1979
"Mr Gorbachev,tear down this wall!"-- Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987
"Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions."-- Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the United Nations, New York, 7 December 1988

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