Ponderings for fun

3

Historcal quotes from real people up next. Because there real I kept thier tags that tell who they are. Some of these quotes you will only get if you you know a bit about history. I hand picked these quotes from a long list and formatted them. If the person has more than 1 quote I only leace the crednitals on the first of their quotes.

"When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation"
-Alexander Hamilton

"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint"
-Alexander Hamilton

"To err is human, to forgive divine"
-Alexander Pope, English poet

"Pride, the never failing vice of fools"
-Alexander Pope

"Wars are always fought for old men, by young boys"
-anonymous

"History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time"
-anonymous

"We make war that we may live in peace"
-Aristotle

"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums"
-Arthur Koestler, Hungarian Jewish author

"Intellect is invisible to the man who has none"
-Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

"The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat"
-Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington,

"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me"
-Arthur Wellesley

"The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill"
-Arthur Wellesley

"The only thing I am afraid of is fear"
-Arthur Wellesley

"We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in(by) France"
-Arthur Wellesley

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
-Arthur Wellesley speaking of Napoleon

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
-Arthur Wellesley upon entering the House of Commons

The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
-Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay, British poet, historian, and MP

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
-Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin

"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price"
-Benjamin Franklin

'Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own"
-Benjamin Franklin

"You may delay, but time will not"
-Benjamin Franklin

"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning"
-Benjamin Franklin

"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"
-Benjamin Franklin

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"
-Benjamin Franklin

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail"
-Benjamin Franklin

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move"
-Benjamin Franklin

"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"
-Benjamin Franklin

"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible"
-Benjamin Franklin
*basically he is pro self reliance(look it up)*

"Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'… Rule 2 is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China"
-Bernard Law Montgomery, British general

"War always finds a way"
-Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright

"War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale"
-Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general and military theorist

"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the(those who) dream of a perfect plan"
-Carl von Clausewitz

"No one starts a war - or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so - without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war, and how he intends to conduct it"
-Carl von Clausewitz

"Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat"
-Carl von Clausewitz
*keep in mind he says this around either the 1700 or 1800's*

"War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the (a) admixture of other means"
-Carl von Clausewitz

"For a soldier I listed(waited), to grow great in fame, And be shot at for six-pence a day"
-Charles Dibdin, British dramatist "Charity" 1791
* six pence is very little money, even considering things were much cheaper back then*

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse"
-Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor

"Don’t be afraid!"
-Charles XII, King of Sweden, his last words before being killed in battle

"War is too much a serious thing to be left to military men"
-Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat

"Mistrust first impulses, they are nearly always good"
-Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
*in this time period socially equite is strict and widely observed giving a facade of kindness*

"Nervos belli, pecuniam infinitam"
(The basis of war is unlimited money)
-Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher

"Silent enim leges inter arma" (Laws are silent in times of war)
-Cicero

"An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use"
-Comte de Saint-Germain, French courtier and alchemist

"Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!"
-Cotton Mather his last words

"Let all brave Prussians follow me!"
-Count von Sedgewick, Prussian general, his last words prior to being killed by a cannonball

"Oh dear…"
David Garrick, British actor and theatre manager, his last words

"I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct"
-Dominique Bouhours, French Jesuit grammarian, his last words

To be continued......