TITLE:HISTORIC SENTENCES (SO THEY SAY)
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3                               HISTORIC SENTENCES


The  sentences  entered  in history.  Rare examples of the use of right words at
the right moments.


2I don't want to steal the victory
Alexander  the  Great,  emperor,  replying to his advisers telling him to attack
persian armies in the night.


2If we will defeat the romans in another battle like this, we are ruined
Pyrrhus,  king  of  Epiro,  commenting his victory of Ascoli against the romans.
(279 b.C.)


2I came, I saw, I won.
Julius Caesar, commenting his military campaign against Farnace II (47 b.C).


2A cadaver doesn't bit
Teodoto, Tolomeo's adviser, willing to kill Pompeus.


2You kill a dead man.
Ferrucci, Florence's army leader. (1530)


2I don't make war with dead men, may he rest in peace:  now he is in front of his
2Judge.
Carlo  V, emperor, in front of Lutero's tomb, refusing to open it and spread his
ashes.


2On my empire the sun never sets.
Someone commenting Carlo V's lange empire.


2May justice be done and may the world die!
A motto of Ferdinando I.


2Still it moves!
Galileo, italian scientist, after the 1632 abjuration.


2England expects every man will do his duty.
H. Nelson, english army leader, at the Trafalgar battle. (1805)


2The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields at Eton.
A.W. Wellington's duke.


2Italy is done, but not italians.
D'Azeglio, italian politician.


2The only good Indian is a dead Indian.
Ph. H. Sheridan, american general.


2Doctor Livingstone, I presume.
H.M.   Stanley,  british  journalist,  when he found in Africa the lost explorer
Livingstone.  (1831)


2We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
Queen Victoria during the "black week" in December 1899.


2Armed neutrality.
Th.W. Wilson, USA president. (1917)


2It's not enough to be heroes. We want to be winners.
G. Clemenceau, french politician.


2Remeber to dare always.
Motto made by G. D'Annunzio, italian writer.


2If I strike follow me, if I withdraw kill me, if I die revenge me.
Mussolini, italian politician, in a speech to fascist officials. (1926)


2It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
D. Ibaburri, spanish female politician. (1936)


2I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
F.D. Roosevelt, USA president. (1937)


2I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
W. Churchill, british politician. (1940)


2We  shall  defend  our  island,  whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the
2beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and
2in the streets, we shall fight in the hill; we shall never surrender.
W. Churchill. (1940)


2In  war,  resolution;  in  defeat,  defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace,
2goodwill.
W. Churchill.


2An iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
W. Churchill. (1946)


2We must build a kind of United States of Europe.
W. Churchill. (1946)


2Imperialists won't last long, because they are doing all the possible misdeeds.
Mao Tse-Tung, chinese politician. (1959)


2We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.
J.F. Kennedy, USA president. (1960)


2Black is beautiful.
Motto used by M.L. King. (1967)


2For  years  politicians  have promised the moon, I'm the first one to be able to
2deliver it.
Nixon, USA president, in a radio message to the astronauts on the moon. (1969)