Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309–1388) Tughluq sultan
Delhi and Environs , Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. Elliot and Dowson. Vol. III, p. 380-81
Quotes from the Futuhat-i-Firuz Shahi
Ajmer, Pushkar (Rajasthan) , Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, translated into English by Alexander Rogers, first published 1909-1914, New Delhi Reprint, 1978, Vol. I, pp. 254-55.
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309–1388) Tughluq sultan
Delhi and Environs , Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. Elliot and Dowson. Vol. III, p. 380-81
Quotes from the Futuhat-i-Firuz Shahi
Aurangzeb (1618–1707) Sixth Mughal Emperor
Goel, Sita Ram (2001). The story of Islamic imperialism in India. ISBN 9788185990231 Ch. 7.
Quotes from late medieval histories, 1680s
“You fainted," I told Tank.
"I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.”
Janet Evanovich book Fearless Fourteen
Source: Fearless Fourteen
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On the Polish defense against Germany, in The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
1940s
Source: Said to General Heinz Guderian, 4 August 1941, as quoted Panzer Leader (1952) by Heinz Guderian
“Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?”
Eoin Colfer book Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (2006)
Jussi Halla-aho (1971) Finnish Slavic linguist, blogger and a politician
Jussi Halla-aho on Facebook in 2011. <br class="br">Halla-aho was suspended for two weeks by his parliamentary group in June 2011 http://yle.fi/uutiset/halla-aho_suspended_for_two_weeks/2874736 due to this quote on Greece. <br class="br">2010 -
Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist
Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2014)
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Art of Persuasion
Context: This art, which I call the art of persuading, and which, properly speaking, is simply the process of perfect methodical proofs, consists of three essential parts: of defining the terms of which we should avail ourselves by clear definitions, of proposing principles of evident axioms to prove the thing in question; and of always mentally substituting in the demonstrations the definition in the place of the thing defined.
Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic
and I believe in China they will send out the tanks.
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011), Q&A