What is your favourite Historic quote or speech?

Therefore, please eat with me once.
The tavern where food is delicious is near Rikuzen-Ochiai.
Then, I would like to talk, also drinking alcohol slowly.
Thank you for your consideration.
Please give me your time.
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<sniff> beautiful
 
George W. Bush said:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
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:D
 
The Journal of Captain Cook - Second Voyage:
"... I had ambition not only to go farther than any one had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go ..." - James Cook, R.N.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill
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It's particularly common, and dull... but - 'Plan for the worst, hope for the best'

Also this one has always stuck in my mind - 'with nobody to challenge me, I choose to challenge myself'
 
honestly this sends shivers down my spine every time i hear it.
brutally honest yet exceptionally motivational speech.
i'd certainly feel comfortable with this man in command.

Speech excerpt

“ We go to Iraq to liberate not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their country. We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag which will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Show respect for them. There are some who are alive at this moment who will not be alive shortly. Those who do not wish to go on that journey, we will not send. As for the others I expect you to rock their world. Wipe them out if that is what they choose. But if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory.
Iraq is steeped in history. It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham. Tread lightly there. You will see things that no man could pay to see and you will have to go a long way to find a more decent, generous and upright people than the Iraqis. You will be embarrassed by their hospitality even though they have nothing. Don't treat them as refugees for they are in their own country. Their children will be poor, in years to come they will know that the light of liberation in their lives was brought by you.
If there are casualties of war then remember that when they woke up and got dressed in the morning they did not plan to die this day. Allow them dignity in death. Bury them properly and mark their graves.
It is my foremost intention to bring every single one of you out alive but there may be people among us who will not see the end of this campaign. We will put them in their sleeping bags and send them back. There will be no time for sorrow.
The enemy should be in no doubt that we are his nemesis and that we are bringing about his rightful destruction. There are many regional commanders who have stains on their souls and they are stoking the fires of hell for Saddam. He and his forces will be destroyed by this coalition for what they have done. As they die they will know their deeds have brought them to this place. Show them no pity.
It is a big step to take another human life. It is not to be done lightly. I know of men who have taken life needlessly in other conflicts, I can assure you they live with the Mark of Cain upon them. If someone surrenders to you then remember they have that right in international law and ensure that one day they go home to their family.
The ones who wish to fight, well, we aim to please.
If you harm the regiment or its history by over-enthusiasm in killing or in cowardice, know it is your family who will suffer. You will be shunned unless your conduct is of the highest for your deeds will follow you down through history. We will bring shame on neither our uniform or our nation.
[Regarding the use by Saddam of chemical or biological weapons] It is not a question of if, it's a question of when. We know he has already devolved the decision to lower commanders, and that means he has already taken the decision himself. If we survive the first strike we will survive the attack.
As for ourselves, let's bring everyone home and leave Iraq a better place for us having been there.
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"At least those with closed minds never have to worry about their brains gathering dust." - Anonymous
"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill
"Don't count the days, make the days count." - Muhammad Ali
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.” - Dan Stanford
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - JFK + too many other things JFK said to list
 
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

When asked if he could ever forgive the terrorists that caused 911.

His reply ! "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting"
 
This has always hit a chord with me, from Field Marshall The Viscount Slim KG. GCB. GCMG. GCVO. GBE. DSO. MC.

Slim commanded the rearguard of the army that retreated from Burma in 1942. Slim relates at one critical point in the retreat in a jungle clearing he came across a unit which was in a bad way.

"I took one look at them and thought "My God, they’re worse than I supposed." then I saw why. I walked round the corner of that clearing and I saw officers making themselves a bivouac. They were just as exhausted as their men, but that isn’t my point. Officers are there to lead. I tell you, therefore, as officers, that you will neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor smoke, nor even sit down until you have personally seen that your men have done those things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. And, if you do not, I will break you."

 
Shayper said:
"I know not what weapons WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones"

Albert Einstein. Awesome quote :)
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This is the one that sprung to mind for me.
Also, on a lighter note for 90s football fans:

[quote='Big' Ron Atkinson]Carlton Palmer can trap the ball farther than I can kick it.[/quote]
:D:D:D
 
steve45 said:
honestly this sends shivers down my spine every time i hear it.
brutally honest yet exceptionally motivational speech.
i'd certainly feel comfortable with this man in command.
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This, i know a few guys who were there when he made that speech, they were very impressed with it. Iirc, even G dubya bush kept a copy of it framed in his office. The guys i know also said that collins was a really decent guy in person as well.
 
Einstein "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

Nietzche ""He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster."

As to speeches

 
"Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"
 
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