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Final Quotes Flashcards

1
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  • Christopher Columbus
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Native Americans are primitive, would be good servants and Christians

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  • Martin Luther
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Sale of indulgences is corrupt.

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  • Thomas Jefferson
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Declaration of Independence - people have rights and the power to overthrow the government

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4
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  • Thomas Hobbes
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Natural laws

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5
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Lafayette

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Based on the Declaration of Independence - focused on liberty and freedom

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6
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Simón Bolivar

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Choose the gov that is most likely to succeed

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7
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Isaac Newton

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If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

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8
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Oliver Cromwell

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Telling parliament to leave

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9
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Adam Smith

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Market is natural, argues against mercantilism

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10
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John Locke

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We all have freedoms and should not take them away from each other

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11
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Dom Pedro I

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Declaring Brazil separate from Portugal; slavery is evil

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12
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William Wilberforce

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Discussing and describing slavery

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13
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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Treat women like the rational creatures they are

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14
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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Treat women like the rational creatures they are

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15
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Karl Marx

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Communist Manifesto; history of class struggles

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16
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Niccolò Machiavelli

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Is it better to be feared or loved? The ends justify the means; no use for moral codes in politics

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17
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John Newton

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Through many danger, toils, and snares I have already come.

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18
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Samuel Seabury

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Against the Revolutionary Wars

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19
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Otto von Bismarck

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German Unification

20
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Rudyard Kipling

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White nations have the right to rule & civilize the world

21
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Teddy Roosevelt

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“Speak Softly and carry a big stick”

22
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Vladimir Lenin

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Wants gov of the workers and peasants to end the suffering

23
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Woodrow Wilson

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US will make the world “safe for democracy”

24
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Laurence Binyon

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Poem for the fallen WWI soldiers

25
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John Maynard Keynes

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Against capitalism, All about economics. Gov intervention is good

26
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Friedrich August con Hayek

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Conservatism and socialism are both wrong. Gov intervention is bad

27
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Benito Mussolini

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Secret forces = fascism

28
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Adolf Hitler

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Against Jews. Mentions Marxism. / Announcement saying any who oppose Hitler’s gov will be treated as traitors

29
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Winston Churchill

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Kicked the previous Prime Minister out / “This was their finest hour / Americans take all other roads before the right one

30
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Charles de Gaulle

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France isn’t finished

31
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Four Freedoms, his vision of the post-war world

32
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Douglas MacArthur

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Promised to help the Philippines

33
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Martin Niemöller

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Poem about the destruction of the Jews

34
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Oppenheimer

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Compares the atomic bomb to the destroyer of worlds

35
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George Jennan

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Soviet power is the greatest threat in history to the US

36
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Fidel Castro

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Cuba + prison

37
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Eva Perón

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Vote for Perón and I love you all!

38
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Getúlio Vargas

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I am with you every step of the way – I do not fear death. I gave you everything

39
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Betty Friedan

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Women belong outside the home too. They want more

40
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Lesley Gore

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‘You don’t own me’ song

41
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Germaine Greer

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Sick of just being there for the men - I am a person

42
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John F. Kennedy

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Space Race - we achieve our goals because they are hard

43
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Neil Armstrong

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“one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

44
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Ronald Reagan

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“Tear down this wall” - importance of freedom and security

45
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George W. Bush

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America still shines despite 9/11 / Goals after 9/11

46
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Andrey Kelin

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“No one hates Americans more than other Americans”

47
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Ann Widdecombe

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Don’t ignore what is happening around you

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