historical event quotes

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it… Never.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.