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Highlands Ranch High School - Mr. Sedivy
Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

- Famous Quotes Throughout World History -


Index of Quotes by Speaker and Historical Era

Mr. Sedivy's Highland Ranch High School History site includes several hundred relevant historical quotations. This section contains famous quotes of world history in chronological order beginning with the ancient Greeks and ending with US pop culture. Note that many (over 100) additonal quotes are included within the course lecture notes / additional information pages at this site. If you're looking for a famous quote spoken by a person not listed below, please use Mr. Sedivy's Site Search feature.


Quoted Speakers Listed by Historical Era

World History Quotes

Ancient Greece
Homer - 8th Century BC
Anacharsis - 6th Century BC
Heraclitus c.540 - c.480 BC
Sophocles c.496 - 406 BC
Pericles c.495 - 429 BC
Protagoras - b. c.485 BC
Euripides c.485 - 406 BC
Agathon c.445 BC
Socrates 469 - 399 BC
Hippocrates c.460 - 357 BC
Plato 429 - 347 BC
Diogenes c.400 - c.325 BC
Aristotle 384 - 322 BC
Alexander the Great 356 - 323 BC
Euclid - c.300 BC
Archimedes c.287 - 212 BC
Anonymous

Ancient Rome - BC
Cato the Elder 234 - 149 BC
Cicero 106 - 43 BC
Julius Caesar 100 - 44 BC
Lucretius c.94 - 55 BC
Catullus c.84 - 54 BC
Horace 65 - 8 BC

Roman Empire - AD
Ovid 43 BC - c.17 AD
Emperor Augustus 63 BC - 14 AD
Emperor Vespasian 9 - 79 AD
Tacitus c.56 - c.177 AD
Emperor Hadrian 76 - 138 AD
Marcus Aurelius 121 - 180 AD
Emperor Constantine c.288 - 337

Dark and Middle Ages
Pope Gregory the Great c.540 - 604
The Venerable Bede 673 - 735
Pope Gregory VII c.1020 - 1085
Henry II 1133 - 1189
Magna Carta - 1215
Stephen Langton - d.1228
Dante Alighieri 1265 - 1321
Geoffrey Chaucer c.1343 - 1400
Edward III 1312 - 1377

Reformation and Renaissance
Erasmus c.1469 - 1536
Cesare Borgia 1476 - 1507
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 - 1527
Cardinal Wolsey c.1475 - 1530
Martin Luther 1483 - 1546
Emperor Charles V 1500 - 1558
St. Ignatius Loyola 1491 - 1556
Henri IV 1553 - 1610

England: 15th, 16th, 17th Centuries
Erasmus c.1469 - 1536
Sir Thomas More 1478 - 1535
Henry VIII 1491 - 1547
James V (of Scotland) 1512 - 1542
Elizabeth I 1533 - 1603
Mary Queen of Scots 1542 - 1587
Sir Francis Drake c.1540 - 1596
Guy Fawkes 1570 - 1606
James I (VI of Scotland) 1566 - 1625
Robert Bruce 1554 - 1631
Oliver Cromwell 1599 - 1658
Charles I 1600 - 1649
Charles II 1630 - 1685

Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution
Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642
René Descartes 1596 - 1650
Thomas Hobbes 1588 - 1679
John Locke 1632 - 1704
Sir Isaac Newton 1642 - 1727
Philippe Néricault Destouches 1680 - 1754
David Hume 1711 - 1776
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 - 1778
Frederick the Great 1712 - 1786
Empress Catherine the Great 1729 - 1796
Immanuel Kant 1724 -1804
Bishop Samuel Horsley 1733 - 1806

Enlightenment - Voltaire
Voltaire 1694 - 1778

French Revolution / Napoleon Era
Charles Alexandre de Calonne 1734 - 1802
Maximilien Robespierre 1758 - 1794
Napoléon I 1769 - 1821
Pierre, Baron de Cambronne 1770 - 1842
Duke of Wellington 1769 - 1852

Modern Europe History - 1800s
Sir William Hamilton 1788 - 1856
Prince Otto von Bismarck 1815 - 1898
Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 - 1859
Karl Marx 1818 - 1883
Nicholas I of Russia 1796 - 1855
E. K. Freeman 1823 - 1892
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria 1819 - 1901

Europe and Asia - 1900s
Joseph Chamberlain 1836 - 1914
Prince Bernard von Bülow 1849 - 1929
Emperor Wilhelm II 1897 - 1941
Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) 1870 - 1924
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 - 1951
Leon Trotsky 1879 - 1940
Joseph Stalin 1879 - 1953
Neville Chamberlain 1869 - 1940
Adolf Hitler 1889 - 1945
Mao Tse-tung 1893 - 1976

Europe - Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965

 

 

American History

America in the 1700s - Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
Benjamin Franklin

America in the 1700s
Patrick Henry 1736 - 1799
John Adams 1735 - 1826
Sam Adams
Samuel Adams 1722 - 1803
Nathan Hale 1755 - 1776
John Paul Jones 1747 - 1792
Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826
Thomas Jefferson

United States - 1800s
John Quincy Adams 1767 - 1848
Francis Scott Key 1779 - 1843
Daniel Webster 1782 - 1852
Horace Greeley 1811 - 1872
Philip Henry Sheridan 1831 - 1888
General Sherman 1820 - 1891
Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1919

Abraham Lincoln and US Civil War
Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865
John Wilkes Boothe 1829 - 1865

US - 1800s - Mark Twain
Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

Teddy Roosevelt

America - Early 1900s / World War I
Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919
Woodrow Wilson 1856 - 1924
H. G. Wells 1866 - 1946
Calvin Coolidge 1872 - 1933

US 20th-Century and World War II
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 - 1945
General Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
Wendell Willkie 1892 - 1944
J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904 - 1967
Orson Welles 1915 - 1985
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 - 1969
Harry S. Truman 1884 - 1972

American Pop Culture
Thomas Alva Edison 1847 - 1931
Henry Ford 1863 - 1947
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
Mae West 1892 - 1980
W. C. Fields 1880 - 1946
Groucho Marx 1895 - 1977
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962
Stanley Kubrick 1928 - (1999?)
Andy Warhol 1927 - 1987
Alfred Hitchcock 1899 - 1980
Gerald Ford 1909 -

 

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- Famous Quotes Throughout World History -

| The Great Quotes of Ancient Greece |
| Profound Quotes of Ancient Rome - BC |
| Quotes from the Roman Empire - AD |
| Famous Quotes from the Dark and Middle Ages |
| Relevant Quotes from the Reformation and Renaissance |
| Quotes from England: 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries |
| Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution Quotes | Voltaire |
| Quotes from the French Revolution and Napoleon Era |
| Modern European History Quotes from the 1800s |
| Quotes from Europe and Asia - 1900s | Winston Churchill |

Famous Quotes from American History
| Benjamin Franklin | Quotes from America in the 1700s |
| Thomas Jefferson | United States Quotes from the 1800s |
| Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War | Mark Twain |
| American Quotes from the Early 1900s and World War I |
| US 20th-Century and World War II Quotes |
| Famous American Pop Culture Quotes |

 

   
 

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Mr. Sedivy's History Classes
| Colorado History | American Government | Advanced Placement Modern European History | Rise of Nation State England | World History |

World History: Dawn of Civilization to Napoleon - Units of Study
| Prehistory | Mesopotamia & Phoenicians | Ancient Egypt | Greece | Rome | Medieval History | Renaissance and Reformation | Exploration | National Monarchies |
| The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | Colonial America and the American Revolution | The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era |

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