Quotes from history,......, I come to bury Caesar, not to....

[grahamg]

The quotes from history most folks will have heard of include this one, (spoken by Mark Anthony, from a Shakespeare play, Act 3, so not history I know):

"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"!

Your most memorable ones are?

 

[Jennina]

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Gen. George S. Patton

 

[Chris P Bacon]

“God is dead.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Warrigal]

“I came through and I shall return“ - Douglas MacArthur

American and Filipino forces were under siege in the Philippines. The Japanese invaded soon after the Pearl Harbor attack. By early March 1942, they had bottled up the U.S. and Filipinos on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor.

President Roosevelt, fearful of one of America’s most successful and well-known generals being taken captive by the Japanese if Corregidor fell was too bitter a conclusion to contemplate. He ordered MacArthur to escape to Australia to take charge of Allied forces there. He left the Philippines on March 11.

However, contrary to public belief, MacArthur’s statement, “I Shall Return” was not given on the shores of the Philippines, but at an Australian train station, 10 days later.

On This Day in 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur Gives the “I Shall Return” Speech | SOFREP

 

[Chris P Bacon]

Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.

AG Bell per Wikipedia

 

[Alligatorob]

"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"!

Reminds me of the story of Cleopatra's famous berry. It was the largest and greatest berry ever grown. When Mark Anthony first arrived in Egypt there was a rumor that he was there to steal the berry. So he went to Cleopatra and told her:

"I come to praise your berry, not to cease it"

 

[Sunny]

"The eagle has landed." This was said by Neil Armstrong when they landed on the moon, but I think it was originally a quote from WW2.

 

[Alligatorob]

"Houston" the first word spoken from the moon, or maybe not... https://www.khou.com/article/news/l...first-word-spoken-from-the-moon/285-412522095

 

[Chris P Bacon]

“Try it, you’ll like it!”
Eve speaking to Adam in the Garden of Eden

 

[Oris Borloff]

"It's a shame you listen to me sometimes". -- My Wife Sunday Nov 15, 2015 6:30 pm

 

[jujube]

"Hey, guys, watch me do this! "

--- Last words of Bubba Jones on July 4th, 1992.

 

[Pepper]

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
--Dwight Eisenhower

 

[Pepper]

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
--John Lennon

 

[Chris P Bacon]

"Hey, guys, watch me do this! "

--- Last words of Bubba Jones on July 4th, 1992.

Isn't he the one who also famously said, "Here, hold my beer!"

 

[Chris P Bacon]

"If you're not a part of the solution, then you're a part of the problem."
Someone, somewhere, sometime ago

 

[grahamg]

"If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes"
(a hermit philosopher admired by Alexander the Great)

"Remember upon the behaviour of each depends the fate of all",
(the great man from ancient Greece again!)

"Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters"
(Alexander again)

 

[officerripley]

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance [italics officerripley's] as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all." ~~Alexis de Tocqueville

 

[ohioboy]

"Able was I ere I saw Elba".

 

[officerripley]

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." ~~Adam Smith

 

[officerripley]

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
~~U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[chic]

"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?'" I dream things things that never were and say, "Why not?" - Ted Kennedy.

 

[officerripley]

"I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”—Thomas Jefferson, in an 1816 letter to a friend

 

[chic]

I am just one experiment away from being disproven. Albert Einstein.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Reminds me of the story of Cleopatra's famous berry. It was the largest and greatest berry ever grown. When Mark Anthony first arrived in Egypt there was a rumor that he was there to steal the berry. So he went to Cleopatra and told her:

"I come to praise your berry, not to cease it"

Groan.!!!!!

 

[Pink Biz]

“The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967