What's your favorite historical one-liner? Mine's "more weight" from Giles Corey.
Favorite historical one-liners -
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"James Madison is no bigger than half a piece of soap." I forget who said it, but it's the only thing I learned in 8th-grade history.
"I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers." - George Mason
Of course, like all badass founding fathers quotes, it was done in the context of a rather banal discussion. Still cool, though.
EDIT: Oh, shit, I forgot the really badass one. "We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves."
Of course, like all badass founding fathers quotes, it was done in the context of a rather banal discussion. Still cool, though.
EDIT: Oh, shit, I forgot the really badass one. "We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves."
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"I have resolved never to start an unjust war but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies" - Charles XII
to bad he ended up losing his one and only war but he was a complete badass while it lasted
to bad he ended up losing his one and only war but he was a complete badass while it lasted
"These are my credentials."
Death is the solution to all problems. No man, no problem. - Josef Stalin
"Pardon me sir, I did not do it on purpose" - Marie Antoinette
I used to have a drug problem but now I can afford it. - David Lee Roth
"If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. " - Calvin Coolidge
On my computer screen, that is a five-liner!
lmao shit, I went to see if he or Winston Churchill was the one for the disputed "I bet I could make you say three words." "You lose." story and saw that one on the page and was thinking "historical quotes" when I came back
"You lose." - Calvin Coolidge to AirdropShitposts
"You lose." - Calvin Coolidge to AirdropShitposts
"I'm gay!" - Ian Carter
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i came here to post "Merde" said by Pierre Cambrone when the British asked for the Old Guard to surrender after Waterloo, but when i looked to verify it {he is rumored either to have said "Merde!" which literally means "shit" but can be loosely translated as "go to hell," or "The Guard dies but does not surrender"} it ends up he didn't say either one of those, and he later said if he would have said either one of them he would have died.
well. . . .
Merde.
well. . . .
Merde.
"Please tell me you're all Republicans."
~ Ronald Reagan to a roomful of surgeons while being wheeled into the operating room after being shot and wounded by John Hinkley Jr.
~ Ronald Reagan to a roomful of surgeons while being wheeled into the operating room after being shot and wounded by John Hinkley Jr.
