If you haven't yet read 10 Great Historical Quotes Part 1, you probably should do so now. This is an extension to the original article, featuring 10 more great historical quotes. Quotes from the past can lighten up our understanding of history, can enhance our knowledge of past events. With that in mind, here are 10 more great historical quotes from great historical figures.
- A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. - Benjamin Franklin
- A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill
- A friend I'the court is better than a penny in purse.- William Shakespeare
- A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry S Truman
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
- A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. - Richard M. Nixon
- In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. - Harold MacMillan
- The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. - John Maynard Keynes
- A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. - David Lloyd George
That brings to an end this issue of Great Historical Quotes, but look out for a possible part 3 sometime in the near future!
