Final Quotes Flashcards

(47 cards)

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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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Simón Bolivar

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Choose the gov that is most likely to succeed

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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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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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Dom Pedro I

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Declaring Brazil separate from Portugal; slavery is evil

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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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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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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”

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Vladimir Lenin

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Wants gov of the workers and peasants to end the suffering

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Woodrow Wilson

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US will make the world “safe for democracy”

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Laurence Binyon

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Poem for the fallen WWI soldiers

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John Maynard Keynes
Against capitalism, All about economics. Gov intervention is good
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Friedrich August con Hayek
Conservatism and socialism are both wrong. Gov intervention is bad
27
Benito Mussolini
Secret forces = fascism
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Adolf Hitler
Against Jews. Mentions Marxism. / Announcement saying any who oppose Hitler's gov will be treated as traitors
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Winston Churchill
Kicked the previous Prime Minister out / "This was their finest hour / Americans take all other roads before the right one
30
Charles de Gaulle
France isn't finished
31
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Four Freedoms, his vision of the post-war world
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Douglas MacArthur
Promised to help the Philippines
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Martin Niemöller
Poem about the destruction of the Jews
34
Oppenheimer
Compares the atomic bomb to the destroyer of worlds
35
George Jennan
Soviet power is the greatest threat in history to the US
36
Fidel Castro
Cuba + prison
37
Eva Perón
Vote for Perón and I love you all!
38
Getúlio Vargas
I am with you every step of the way – I do not fear death. I gave you everything
39
Betty Friedan
Women belong outside the home too. They want more
40
Lesley Gore
'You don't own me' song
41
Germaine Greer
Sick of just being there for the men - I am a person
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John F. Kennedy
Space Race - we achieve our goals because they are hard
43
Neil Armstrong
"one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
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Ronald Reagan
"Tear down this wall" - importance of freedom and security
45
George W. Bush
America still shines despite 9/11 / Goals after 9/11
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Andrey Kelin
"No one hates Americans more than other Americans"
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Ann Widdecombe
Don't ignore what is happening around you