Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
Source: Bandits (1969), Chapter One, What is Social Banditry
“These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.”
Speech at Pointe du Hoc on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/60684a.htm (6 June 1984) <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
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First introduction http://superman.ws/tales2/action1/?page=1 of "Superman" as "Clark Kent" in Action Comics #1 (June 1938)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, The American Promise (1965)
“Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Fragment 288. (Plumptre's translation, as cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1906)
Variant: Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961, Inaugural Address
Variant: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Context: To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required — not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
“Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 7, 1779
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 12
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
The Philosophy of Paine (1925)
Context: The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty — who stepped forth as the champion of so difficult a cause — can be permanently obscured by such attacks. Tom Paine should be read by his countrymen. I commend his fame to their hands.
“Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are.”
V.S. Naipaul book The Enigma of Arrival
"The Ceremony of Farewell"
The Enigma of Arrival (1987)
Context: Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
