Historical Event Quotes

The Korean War was a gift from the Gods.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.

… so called Confederacy

The Civil War still remains the crossroads of our being.

I never felt the Great Depression firsthand. I learned about it at Harvard.

When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

Without Pearl Harbor there would not have been Hiroshima.

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.

In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

I've always wondered, how did Hitler get away with so much for so long?

In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.

The American Revolution produced two new countries—The United States and Canada

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Since the discovery of Columbus, there has been no event of equal importance to the human race.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.