AP European History: Quotes

"The revolution is over! I am the revolution!" Napoleon Bonaparte What is the meaning of the quote?

"I am the first servant of the state." Frederick II "the Great" of Prussia What is the meaning of the quote?

"And yet it still moves!" Galileo Galilei What is the meaning of the quote?

"Paris is worth a mass!" Henry IV of France What is the meaning of the quote?

AP European History: Quotes "No bishops, no king!" James I of England What is the meaning of the quote?

"Bread. Peace. Land." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin What is the meaning of the quote?

"L'etat c'est moi!" Louis XIV of France What is the meaning of the quote?

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton What is the meaning of the quote?

AP European History: Quotes "Crush the infamous thing!" Voltaire What is the meaning of the quote?

"Paris for lunch; dinner in St. Petersburg!" Wilhelm II of Germany What is the meaning of the quote?

"The great decisions of the day will not be decided by speeches or majority decisions...but by iron and blood." Otto von Bismarck What is the meaning of the quote?

"Here I stand. I can do no other. God Help Me. Amen." Martin Luther What is the meaning of the quote?

AP European History: Quotes "I will not accept the crown from the gutter!" King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia What is the meaning of the quote?

"From Stettin on the Baltic, to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." Winston Churchill What is the meaning of the quote?

"It is us today. It will be you tomorrow." Haile Selassie What is the meaning of the quote?

"Cognito ergo sum." ("I think, therefore I am.") Rene Descartes What is the meaning of the quote?

AP European History: Quotes "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." Jean-Jacques Rousseau What is the meaning of the quote?

"Czar Alexander got to Paris!" Joseph Stalin What is the meaning of the quote?

"Not bad - considering I was sitting between Jesus Christ and Napoleon." David Lloyd George What is the meaning of the quote?

"Victory has been bought at a price do dear as to be indistinguishable from defeat." Winston Churchill What is the meaning of the quote?

AP European History: Quotes "Sire, we must do from above what the French have done from below." Baron von Stein What is the meaning of the quote?

"Men are to be changed by, not to change, religion." Pope Paul III What is the meaning of the quote?

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of all lands, unite!" Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx What is the meaning of the quote?