ORIENTATION QUOTES

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

-- Winston Churchill

History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. -- Karl Marx

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history. -- Sting

Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student

The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west.

-- Unknown history student

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

-- Virginia Woolf

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-- George Orwell

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz

CHAPTER 16 QUOTES AND NOTES

“Let all our dealings with the Red Man be characterized by justice and good faith….” Rutherford B. Hayes in his diary July 1, 1878

“It is no part of our policy to create and maintain a navy able to cope with that of the other great powers of the world.” President Chester A. Arthur 1883

CHAPTER 17 QUOTES AND NOTES

“It is George Washington’s finger pointed to the sky.” British ambassador describing the Washington Monument. 1885

“We praise the embodiment of liberty as a woman. But is it not despicable that if liberty had life she could vote neither in the United States nor in France.” Member of the NY Suffrage Association at the Statue of Liberty dedication as said from a boat docked at the Island as women are often excluded from public events.

“The girls of America are clever – yea it is said that they can think.” Rudyard Kipling 1889

“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.” Andrew Carnegie

“It is my duty to make money and even more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow men.” John D. Rockefeller

“The manifest destiny of the Eastman Kodak company is to be the largest manufacturer of photographic materials in the world or go to pot.” George Eastman

CHAPTER 18 QUOTES

“No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war.” Theodore Roosevelt

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Mark Twain in a cable to a NY newspaper

“The most real things in the world are those which neither children nor men can see … and yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” Francis Church NY Sun writer in answer to Virginia Hanlon whose belief in Santa Claus was laughed at by her classmates, 1897

“Government is nothing but a business.” Dick Croker, NYC boss

CHAPTER 19 QUOTES AND NOTES

“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” William Randolph Hearst in a cable to Frederick Remington in Cuba for pre-Spanish American War coverage 1898

The horseless carriage “will never come into as common use as the bicycle.” Literary Digest

“Speak softly and carry a big stick and you will go far.” Theodore Roosevelt tells his friend Henry Sprague

“He who can does. He who cannot teaches.” George Bernard Shaw

“The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straight jacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.” Woodrow Wilson 1904

“Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society … may force the United States however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.” Pres. Theodore Roosevelt

“I want to implant in the minds of our fellow Americans of foreign ancestry or birth the knowledge that they have just the same rights and opportunities as anyone else in this country.” Pres. Theodore Roosevelt

CHAPTER 20 QUOTES AND NOTES

“I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident hit it in the stomach.” Upton Sinclair commenting on the impact of his novel The Jungle

“I can do 1 of 2 things, I can be president of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.” Theodore Roosevelt – Alice puffed a cigarette in public and once raced about in a car in the company of 3 men

“We may discount all the scare headlines about what will happen if women do thus and so. They have done nearly everything, and the heavens have not fallen.” Mrs. Ellen Richards, chemist

“We intend to use these [natural] resources, but to so use them as to conserve them.” TR

“A customer can have a car painted any color as long as it’s black.” Henry Ford

"More crime, immorality and rascality is prevented by the fear of exposure in the newspapers than by all the laws, morals and statutes ever devised." Joseph Pulitzer

Chapter 21 Quotes

”I took the canalzone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also.” TR

“Well, it is all over; I am glad to give you life. I hope you will be healthy.” Pres Taft to NM citizens upon statehood

“Every capitalist is your enemy. Every workingman is your friend.” Socialist Eugene Debs shouts from his presidential campaign train

Pres Wilson states in a speech that the US “will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest”.

“I am a militant suffragette because I believe suffrage will lead to socialism, and to me socialism is the real cause.” Helen Keller

“Never mind if you are not ladylike, your are womanlike.” Mother Jones

CHAPTER 22 AND 23 QUOTES

“All I know is what I read in the papers.” Will Rogers, humorist

“I come not to fight for you, but with you.” Pres Woodrow Wilson at the annual convention of the National – American Woman’s Party

“I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.” Jeannette Rankin, US Congressperson

A newspaper in New Orleans urges the city “be the last to accept the atrocity in polite society … and make it a point of civic honor to suppress it.” “It” being jazz.

“I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.” Theodore Roosevelt

"I am President of all the people of the United States, without regard to creed, color, birthplace, occupation, or social condition. My aim is to do equal and exact justice among them all." TR

CHAPTER 24 QUOTES

Wit and Wisdom from Mae West:

“It’s not the men in my life that count; it’s the life in my men.”

“It’s better to be looked over than over looked.”

“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”

“When I’m good, I’m very good. When I’m bad I’m even better.”

“Politics makes me sick.” Pres. Taft

“The seed of revolution is repression.” Pres. Wilson

“I can predict with absolute certainty that there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.” Pres. Wilson

CHAPTER 25 QUOTES

“My God, this is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my enemies … my goddamn friends, they’re the ones that keep me walking the floors nights.” Pres. Harding

“Civilization and profits go hand in hand.” Calvin Coolidge

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.” Henry Ford

CHAPTER 26 QUOTES

“I never met a man I didn’t like.” Will Rogers

“We are the first nation to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.” Will Rogers

“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.” FDR in his inaugural address

“Social Security must be built on a cult of work not a cult of leisure.” Herbert Hoover

“I intended to fly to California but I got mixed up in the clouds and must have flown the wrong way.” Wrong Way Douglas Corrigan upon landing in Ireland

CHAPTER 27 QUOTES

“This living in a democracy is a problem, isn’t it?” Eleanor Roosevelt June 18, 1941

“The war news is good; but we’re fighting over optimism. I suppose people at home are elated; the boys up front are still in their fox-holes.” Letter home from officer, France July 22, 1944

“I might have been born in a hovel, but I am determined to fly with the wind and the stars.” Jackie Cochran

“The heavens have opened up and rained blessings on me. The army had decided to let women ferry ships and I’m going to be one of them.” Cornelia Fort, WASP

CHAPTER 28 QUOTES

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Prime Minister Winston Churchill re: RAF pilots defending GB

“No nation can appease the Nazis. No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.” Pres. Franklin Roosevelt 1940

“Much of what Mr. [Henry] Wallace calls his global thinking is, no mater how you slice it, still Globaloney.” Clare Booth Luce tells House Committee

“American productivity without which this war would have been lost.” toast by Joseph Stalin

“Morale is the single greatest factor” in winning wars. Gen Eisenhower

CHAPTER 29 QUOTES

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an ‘iron curtain’ has descended across the Continent.” Winston Churchill Mar 5, 1946; 1914 Belgium’s Ger Queen Eliz saw between Belgium and Germany “ a bloody iron curtain which has descended forever.” 1914 shortly after the Russian Revolution

Vasili Rozanov wrote “With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.”

“Let us not be deceived. We are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home.” Bernard Baruch, financier

“Man spends his energies in fighting with his fellow man over issues which a single look thru this telescope would show to be utterly inconsequential.” Said one speaker about the telescope at Mt. Palomar observatory

“A retreat from Berlin would have serious if not disastrous political consequences in Europe. I do not believe that they Soviets mean war. However, if they do, it seems to me that we might as well find out now as later.” Gen. Lucius Clay, military governor of US occupation zone in Germany

CHAPTER 30 QUOTES

Truman describes Republicans as “bloodsuckers w/offices on Wall Street, princes of privilege, plunderers.”

“I suggest the United Nations should be reorganized without the communist nations in it.” Former Pres. Hoover in a speech to Newspaper Publisher’s Assoc

“If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.” Pres. Truman

“Korea can be the beginning of a new era under a strengthened UN in which our leadership can be notable.” Thomas stokes, political columnist

“If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons.” Daniel Marsh, president of Boston University

“In simplest terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.” Pres Truman in recalling Gen MacArthur

“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” Gen. MacArthur from old Brit barrack-room ballad in official farewell speech for both houses of congress

CHAPTER 31 QUOTES

“Adlai [Stevenson] is the appeaser … who got his Ph. D from Dean Aceson’s College of Cowardly Communist containment.” Vice-Presidential candidate Richard Nixon

“Eggheads of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your yolks.” Pres. Candidate Adlai Stevenson

“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.” Nikita Khrushchev

“… If you are scared to go to the Brink, you are lost.” Sec of State Dulles

America and soviets “are like 2 scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other but only at the risk of his own life…. The atomic clock ticks faster and faster.” J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The immediate cause of World War III is the preparation of it.” Sociologist C. Wright Mills

1960s QUOTES AND NOTES

“I fear that Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.” Sen. Barry Goldwater

TV called “chewing gum for the eyes” by kid and “A vast wasteland” of “game shows, violence, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder … and most of all, boredom.” Newton N Minow, New Frontier’s chairman of Fed Communications Commission

“I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.” JFK

“The youth rebellion is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history.” Wm Burroughs

“What we need in the United States is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer w/in our own country, whether they be white or they be black.” Sen. Robert Kennedy on MLK assassination

“It takes little wisdom to realize that if it was unwise and inept to have gotten into this war in the 1^st place; to stubbornly persist in staying in it becomes stupid and evil.” Coretta Scott King

“When the security of America is involved, when peace for America and the world in involved, and the lives of our young men are involved, we are not Democrats, we are not Republicans, we are Americans.” Pres. Nixon on Vietnam

“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.” Cesar Chavez

“You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.” Cesar Chavez

1970s

“The Vietcong cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.” Pres. Nixon

“I think you would have to conclude that this is a great wall.” Pres. Nixon on the Great Wall of China

“I welcome this kind of examination because the people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.” Pres. Nixon on the Watergate investigation

Nixon expressed his deep regrets for “any injury that may have been done. I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong – and some were wrong – they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interests of the nation.”

“Our long national nightmare is over.” Gerald Ford upon taking the office of the President

“When the President does it, that means it’s not illegal.” ex-President Nixon