Famous Quotes

"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations."

Franklin P. Adams on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Franklin P. Adams

• "There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."

• "Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."

• "Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."

• "Christmas is over and Business is Business."

• "The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."