Famous Quotes

"Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it."

Thomas Francis Meagher 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 Thomas Francis Meagher

• "A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation."

• "Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it."

• "I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream."

• "I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream."

• "A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation."