Quotes by famous people

Our Top 10 Famous American History Quotes
(no particular order)


Quotes by men who have changed the course of American history:


These quotes from some of the forefathers and presidents that have been inspirations to men and established the United States of America.



1) “I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.”
--George Washington



2) “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
--Benjamin Franklin

3) “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!”
--Patrick Henry
The speech was given as an opposition to the English Crown in 1775, however, this quote will always be heard wherever there is oppression of freedom. Life will not be worthwhile without being able to do the things we want to do.

4) Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

--Thomas Jefferson



5) “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
--Abraham Lincoln

6) "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
--Theodore Roosevelt

7) “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

--J. Robert Oppenheimer

Quoted from the man who is the father of the atomic bomb.

8) “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
--Martin Luther King Jr.

The person who fought for equal rights with a peaceful advocate.

9) “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
--Ronald Regan

Led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

10) “You are either with us, or against us”
--George W. Bush

The culmination of the war against terror that changed the United States.

Quotes by famous people

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-)

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948-)

"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."
- Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)