HIST 111 (Honors): Quotes for Exams
For each exam, there will a listing section in which students will be expected to provide answers from memory. There will also be quotes for which students must give the author/ speaker/ source. The list is for the final is cumulative.
Exam I
1. “No scutage or aid shall be imposed in our kingdom except by the common council of our kingdom”
2. “To no man will we sell, or deny, or delay right or justice.”
3. “When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?”
4. “Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote ....
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.”
5.“Man’s highest joy is in victory: To conquer one’s enemies, to pursue them, to deprive them of possessions, to make their beloved weep, to ride on their horses, and to embrace their wives and daughters.”
6. “Cry God for Harry, England and St. George!”
7. “What are you doing you servants of the cross? Will you throw to the dogs that which is most holy? Will you cast pearls before swine?”
8. “Abandon all hope, ye that enter.”
9. “In the year of Our Lord 1348 the deadly plague broke out in the great city of Florence, the most beautiful of Italian cities.”
10. “Of men one can, in general, say this: They are ungrateful, fickle, deceptive and deceiving, avoiders of danger, eager to gain.”
11. “Christ is my God; Cicero is the prince of the language.”
12. “I only take away the surplus, the statue is already there.”
13. “Leave the waging of war to others! But you, happy Austria, marry”
14. “I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”
15.“I maintain it is much safer to be feared than loved.”
16. “To him it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.”
17. “the aim of the perfect Courtier ... is so to win for himself... the favor and mind of the prince whom he serves”
18. “Let us enjoy the papacy, since God has given it to us.
19. “Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me.”
20. “I disagree very much with those who are unwilling that Holy Scripture, translated into the vulgar tongue, be read by the uneducated”
21. “I would that they [Scriptures] were translated into all languages so that they could be read and understood not only by Scots and Irish but also by Turks and Saracens.”
22. “Sola Scriptura”
23. “Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.”
24. “As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.”
25. “A mighty fortress is our God.”
26. “He has once for all determined, both whom he would admit to salvation, and whom he would condemn to destruction.”
27. “I will not make windows into men’s souls.”
28. “Paris is well worth a mass.”
Exam II
1. “Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me.”
2. “I maintain it is much safer to be feared than loved.”
3. “the aim of the perfect Courtier ... is so to win for himself... the favor and mind of the prince whom he serves”
4. “Let us enjoy the papacy, since God has given it to us.”
5. “Paris is well worth a mass.”
6. “A chicken in every pot.”
7. “I have the heart and the stomach of a King”
8. “I will have but one mistress here, and no master.”
9. “There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country”
10. “I will not make windows into men’s souls.”
11. “This royal throne of kings, this sceptr’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England”
12. “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.”
13. “I am the State”
14. “One King, one law, one faith.”
15. “I loved war too much.”
16. “Solitary, poor, nasty brutish & short”
17. “I think, therefore, I am.”
18. “The dotrine that the sun was the center of the world and immovable was false and absurd”
19. “Near the sun is the center of the universe.”
20. “the mind cannot be doubted but the body and material world can, the two must be radically different.”
21. “Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said ‘Let Newton be’ and all was light!”
22. “God is everywhere present”
23. “If I have seen further than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”
24. “The heart feels God, not the reason. This what constitutes faith: God experienced by the heart, not the reason.”
25. “The heart has its reasons of which the reason knows nothing.”
26. “And yet it does move!”
27. “well-ordered music in the honor of God”
28. “Open a window to the West”
29. “God wants us to make peace; for He is depriving us visibly of all the means of war.’”
30. “The fundamental rule of governments is the principle of extending their territories.”
31. “all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”
32. “No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience.”
33. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
34. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
For Exam #3:
1. “Solitary, poor, nasty brutish & short”
2. “I think, therefore, I am.”
3. “The heart feels God, not the reason. This what constitutes faith: God experienced by the heart, not the reason.”
4. “And yet it does move!”
5. “well-ordered music in the honor of God”
6. “Open a window to the West”
7. “God wants us to make peace; for He is depriving us visibly of all the means of war.’”
8. “The fundamental rule of governments is the principle of extending their territories.”
9. “all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”
10. “No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience.”
11. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
12. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
13. “I am no Washington.”
14. “One impulse from a vernal wood may teach you more of man, of Moral Evil and of good, than all the sages can.”
15. “this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
16. “Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
17. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
18. “I am the Revolution”
19. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
20. “Give them a whiff of grapeshot.”
21. “England expects everyman to do his duty.”
22. "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
23. “who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself”
24. “The person who really commands the army is your master; the master of your king, the master of your assembly, the master of your whole republic.”
25. “Soldiers of the fifth regiment, I am your Emperor”
26. “The primary and most important measures ... are drainage, the removal of all refuse of habitations, streets, roads and the improvement of the supplies of water.”
27. “Peacefully if we can, forcibly, if we must.”
28. “Workers of the world unite!”
29. “Absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects”
30. “O my Brother! Love your Country. Our Country is our home.”
31. “The Russian centers all the authority of society in a single arm”
For the Final: Previous lists plus the following:
1. “Germany does not look to Prussia’s liberalism but to her power.... Not by speeches and majorities will the great questions of the day be decided ... but by iron and blood.”
2. “Workers of the World Unite!”
3. “Peace, Land & Bread! All power to the Soviet!”
4. “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle”
5. “there must in every case be a struggle for existence”
6. “War is a biological necessity of the first importance”
7. “If there be a God, I think what he would like me to do is to paint as much of Africa British red as possible.”
8. “Take up the White Man’s Burden – send forth the best ye breed – Go bind your sons to exile to serve your captives’ needs;”
9. “I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as did my unforgettable father.”
10. “In fact we thought that mankind’s course was set for an earthly paradise.”
10a. "I can't believe that George and Nikki have played me false."
11. “The lamps are going out all over Europe. They will not be lit again in our lifetime.”
12. “We are fighting for the liberty, the self-government, and the undictated development of all peoples, and every feature of the settlement that concludes this war must be conceived and executed for that purpose.”
13. “Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State, the synthesis and unity of all values, interprets, develops and gives strength to the whole life of the people.”
14. “My only interest was agitation and propaganda.”
15. “There is no longer any arbitrary will, there are no longer any free realms in which the individual belongs to himself... The time of personal happiness is over.”
16. “Peace in our times”
17. “Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed to so few by so many.”
18. “ We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender”
19. “A date which will live in infamy”
20. “I fear we have awakened the sleeping giant.”
21. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”
22. “If Hitler invaded Hell, I should at least make a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
23. “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
24. “A freely elected government in any of these East European countries would be anti-Soviet, and that we cannot allow.”
25. “Not since Rome and Carthage has there been such a polarization of power on this earth.”
26. "Our policy is not directed against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”
27. “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”