quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_pitt_the_elder William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_pitt_the_younger William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister, his last words False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_reb_nachman Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Nachman from Uman, Ukrainian Jewish teacher and spiritual leader False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_richard_brinsley_sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and MP False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_richard_brinsley_sheridan_2 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and MP, his last words. False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_richard_steele Sir Richard Steele, Irish writer and publisher False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_robert_e_lee Robert E. Lee, US general False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_romans Romans 3:8 False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_russian_proverb Russian proverb False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_saint_germain Comte de Saint-Germain, French courtier and alchemist False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_samuel_adams_1 Samuel Adams, US statesman, writer, and political theorist False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_samuel_adams_2 Samuel Adams, US statesman, writer, and political theorist, 5th March 1776, demanding the withdrawal of British troops from Boston False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_samuel_johnson Dr Samuel Johnson, essayist, biographer, and poet False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_scott_mamion Extract from "Mamion" by Sir Walter Scott False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_shelley_mab Extract from "Queen Mab" by Percy Bysshe Shelley False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_southey_madoc Extract from "Madoc" by Robert Southey False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_sun_tzu Sun Tzu, Chinese general and author of The Art of War False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_sydney_smith Reverend Sydney Smith, English clergyman and writer False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_thomas_babington_macaulay Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay, British poet, historian, and MP False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_thomas_carlyle Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist and historian False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_thomas_de_mahay Thomas de Mahay, Marquis de Favras, French aristocrat, his last words upon reading his death sentence before being guillotined False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_thomas_hardy Thomas Hardy, British novelist False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_thomas_hood Thomas Hood, British poet and humourist, "Faithless Nelly Gray", 1826 False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_thomas_jefferson_1 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_thomas_jefferson_2 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President, his last words False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_thomas_paine Thomas Paine, British radical, pamphleteer, and intellectual False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_vegetius Vegetius, Roman writer False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_voltaire_1 Voltaire, French author, wit, and philosopher False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_voltaire_2 Voltaire, French author, wit, and philosopher, commenting on the execution of British admiral John Byng for "failure to do his utmost" during the Battle of Minorca False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_voltaire_3 Voltaire, French author, wit, and philosopher, his view of history False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_walter_scott Sir Walter Scott, Scottish poet and novelist False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_blake William Blake, English engraver, illustrator, and poet False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_cobbett William Cobbett, English pamphleteer False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_congreve William Congreve, English dramatist False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_cowper_1 William Cowper, British poet, "Table Talk", 1782 False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_cowper_2 William Cowper, British poet False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_hazlitt William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_III William III, King of England False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_phillips William Phillips, British artillery general False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_pulteney William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, English MP False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_shakespeare William Shakespeare, English playwright False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_windham William Windham, British MP False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_william_wordsworth William Wordsworth, British poet False
quotes_people_quote_person_onscreen_winston_churchill Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister False
quotes_quote_onscreen_1 Sir, I had little hopes on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin: but it pleased God to order it otherwise. I am thankful for it. As for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, for by God they deserve it. Yours, Du Casse False
quotes_quote_onscreen_10 The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_100 A historian is a prophet in reverse. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_101 Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals! False
quotes_quote_onscreen_102 War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_103 To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_104 War - an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_105 Over-grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_106 My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_107 Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_108 Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_109 To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_11 Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_110 Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_111 The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_112 T'is well. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_113 I would rather wear out than rust out. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_114 Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_115 I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_116 Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_117 Prudence approaches, conscience accuses. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_118 In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_119 Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_12 Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_120 So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_121 Ultima Ratio Regum. (The final argument of kings.) False
quotes_quote_onscreen_122 Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_123 Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_124 You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States'. This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_125 A popular Government without popular information nor the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_126 It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_127 Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_128 Don’t give up the ship! False
quotes_quote_onscreen_13 The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_130 What, do they run already? Then I die happy. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_131 Duty is heavier than iron, yet death is lighter than a feather. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_132 They shall all be guillotined. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_133 You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_134 Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_135 The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_136 If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_137 Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_138 We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody! False
quotes_quote_onscreen_139 I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than the means. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_14 I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_140 I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_141 For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_142 War is the trade of kings. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_143 I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_144 New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_145 All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_146 None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_147 Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_148 I have not yet begun to fight! False
quotes_quote_onscreen_149 What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance… False
quotes_quote_onscreen_15 Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won. False