QUOTATIONS from the 1930'S and 1940'S

QUOTATIONS FROM THE 1930's and 1940's

Directions: Read each of the following quotations and then choose the individual you believe to be the speaker from the list of individuals listed below. Write the name of the speaker on the appropriate blank.

Possible answers:Blum, Chamberlain, Churchill, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, Haile Selassie, Hitler, Montgomery, Mussolini, Roosevelt, Stalin

1. ______"For the second time* in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."

2. ______"Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible."

3. ______"The Hitlerite blackguards...have turned Europe into a prison of nations, and this they call the new order of Europe."

4. ______"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

5. ______"To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history, and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings."

6. ______"War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it."

7. ______"Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have let it fall, I have picked up its broken point."

8. ______"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."

9. ______"No government can remain stable in an unstable society and an unstable world."

10. ______"Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment."

11. ______"Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

DIRECTIONS: Read each of the following quotations and then chose the individual you believe to be the speaker from the list of individuals which follows. Write the name of the speaker on the appropriate blank.

Possible Ansswers: Danton, Louis XVI, Marat, Metternict, Mirabeau, Napoleon, Olympe de Gouges, Robespierre, Sieyes, Talleyrand.

1. ______"I am innocent and shall die without fear. I would that my death might bring happiness to the French and ward off the dangers which I forsee."

2. ______"I closed the gulf of anarchy and cleared the chaos. I excited every kind of emulation, rewarded every kind of merit, and extended the limits of glory."

3. ______"If the basis of popular government in time of peace is virtue, virtue without which terror is murderous, terror without virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing else than swift, severe, indomitable justice: it flows, then, from virtue."

4. ______"My power proceeds from my reputation, and my reputation from victories I have won. My power would fail if I were not to support it with more glory and more victories.

5. ______"The Third Estate embraces then all that which belongs to the nation: and all that which is not the Third Estate, cannot be regarded as being of the nation."

6. ______"Language was given to man in order to conceal thought."

7. ______"We look upon it as a fundamental truth, that for every disease there is a remedy, and that the knowledge of the real nature of the one should lead to the discovery of the other."

8. ______"Everything belongs to the fatherland, when the fatherland is in danger."

9. ______"Prior to the revolution 'France was an old nation,' in that it had "a preesisting government, a preexisting king, and preexisting prejudices."

10. ______"'Tis in vain the idea of Providence has been placed in men's hearts, if so much blood does not one day come back upon thee and thy accomplices."

11. ______"Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the comon utility."

QUOTATIONS FROM THE ISMS

Possible Answers: Alexander I, Hegel, Mazzini, Mill, Owen, Ricardo, Rousseau, Saint-Simon, Smiles, Smith

1. ______"All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the state. For his spiritual reality consists in this, that his own essence--Reason-- is objectively present to him, that it possesses objective immediate existence for him."

2. ______"The sole principle of conduct, be it between governments or their subjects, shall be that of rendering mutual service, and testifying by unceasing good-will, the mutual affection with which they should be animated. Fortify yourself each day in the principles which the Divine Savior has taught to men."

3. ______"National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness and vice."

4. ______"The grace of God was shown when he gave you a country, He divided Humanity into distinct groups, thus creating Nationalities. Evil governments have disfigured the divine design."

5. ______"If we cannot yet reconcile all opinions, let us endeavor to unite all hearts. It is of all truths the most important, that the character of man is formed FOR not BY himself."

6. ______"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant."

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

8. ______"Man was born free, and is everywhere in chains."

9. ______"The golden age of the human race is not behind us, but ahead of us; our fathers will never see it, our children will see it some day; it is for us to prepare the way."

10. ______"The opinion entertained by the laboring class, that the employment of machinery is frequently detrimental to their interests, is not founded on prejudice and error, but is conformable to the correct principles of political economy."