Greatest quotes of history

�I, Jan Hus, in hope a priest of Jesus Christ, fearing to offend God, and fearing to fall into perjury, do hereby profess my unwillingness to abjure all or any of the articles produced against me by false witnesses. For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did. Moreover, concerning the articles that they have extracted from my books, I say that I detest any false interpretation which any of them bears. But inasmuch as I fear to offend against the truth, or to gainsay the opinion of the doctors of the Church, I cannot abjure any one of them. And if it were possible that my voice could now reach the whole world, as at the Day of Judgment every lie and every sin that I have committed will be made manifest, then would I gladly abjure before all the world every falsehood and error which I either had thought of saying or actually said! I say I write this of my own free will and choice." Jan Hus, his final declaration

In 1934 Atat�rk wrote a tribute to the ANZACs killed at Gallipoli:

Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side now here in this country of ours... you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land. They have become our sons as well.

This inscription appears on the Kemal Atat�rk Memorial, ANZAC Parade, Canberra.

    I myself like the quote from Plato below in my signature section thing. And I started the same topic in the Intellectual Conversations area, and then seconds later found this topic. So, now AE has two topics about the same thing...

No man can escape death, but the man can sacrefice himself for the better good of his country.

"what an artist dies with me" Nero

Peace can not be kept by force.

Originally posted by TheTurk In 1934 Atat�rk wrote a tribute to the ANZACs killed at Gallipoli: Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side now here in this country of ours... you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land. They have become our sons as well. This inscription appears on the Kemal Atat�rk Memorial, ANZAC Parade, Canberra.

I never knew about that, that's actually really chivalrous and decent of the man. Things like this do help explain how Australia and Turkey maintain friendly relations in the aftermath of such an horrific battle.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.  ~Winston Churchill

Dear Theodore Felix,

What do you mean "if he was an actual artist"?????
Nero was an Actual Artist! This is why most of the Patricians hated him, but the Plebians loved him.

   

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, about ANZACs fought in Gallipoli:

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side now here in this country of ours... you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well"

Hey, The Turk had written mine before..I really see it now first time.

Edited by Jagatai Khan - 06-Jun-2006 at 17:56