Big Ideas from a little man in a sheet

Gandhi was one of the most influential men of the 20th century. This tiny man eventually made the British Empire release their control of India. What was it about this man that was so inspirational? Was it his actions? Or was it his speeches and quotes?

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience."

Here is a link to the Quit India Speech by Gandhi in 1942 @ http://www.wordpower.ws/speeches/gandhi-quit-india.html

Your one stop shop for quotes!

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Churchill

I have always enjoyed reading quotes and other materials from Churchill. I think he sometimes comes off as brash and arrogant. What do you think of these quotes and him as a person and leader?

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last."

"The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”

Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”

Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”

Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”

"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others."

"Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”

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This blog will have different sayings and speeches from many different historical people throughout the time.