History Quiz

[Said1]

Who said this about your country:

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its verile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

I'm pretty sure that was Churchhill.

 

[Annie]

I'm pretty sure that was Churchhill.

Give the lady a cigar! :clap1:

You want another or would you like to ask?

 

[Said1]

Give the lady a cigar! :clap1:

You want another or would you like to ask?

Go ahead. That one is used a lot on Canadian boards.

 

[Annie]

Go ahead. That one is used a lot on Canadian boards.

There aren't a whole bunch of 'old' Canadian quotes.

Try this one, I was quite surprised to find it:

"A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle."

 

[Said1]

There aren't a whole bunch of 'old' Canadian quotes.

Try this one, I was quite surprised to find it:

"A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle."

Jerry McGuire.........."you complete me..."

 

[Annie]

Jerry McGuire.........."you complete me..."

No. Want the answer or wanna guess once more?

 

[Said1]

No. Want the answer or wanna guess once more?

Answer please.

 

[Annie]

Answer please.

Adolph Hitler. Really.

 

[Said1]

Adolph Hitler. Really.

Good one. Go again.

 

[Annie]

Good one. Go again.

Ok, one you should get:

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

 

[Said1]

Ok, one you should get:

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

Burke of course.

I like order. As long as someone else is in charge of it.

 

[Annie]

Burke of course.

I like order. As long as someone else is in charge of it.

Your turn!

 

[padisha emperor]

just one :
Who said :

"An absolute King is sometimes Nero, but can be also Marcus-Aurelius. An absolute people is often Nero, and never Marcus-Aurelius"

(or can be found like that : "A tyran has some good moments, an assembly of tyrans has never it")

 

[Annie]

just one :
Who said :

"An absolute King is sometimes Nero, but can be also Marcus-Aurelius. An absolute people is often Nero, and never Marcus-Aurelius"

(or can be found like that : "A tyran has some good moments, an assembly of tyrans has never it")

I'm sleepy, guess: Shakespeare?

 

[USViking]

just one :
Who said :

"An absolute King is sometimes Nero, but can be also Marcus-Aurelius. An absolute people is often Nero, and never Marcus-Aurelius"

(or can be found like that : "A tyran has some good moments, an assembly of tyrans has never it")

Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

 

[padisha emperor]

It can't be Rousseau, it's against democracy (with the Socratic conception of Democracy : government of the ignorants)

It was Voltaire.


(for the Locke's quote : I believe that he was for the property right, inalienable, and this quote seems to show the inverse.)

 

[USViking]

It can't be Rousseau, it's against democracy (with the Socratic conception of Democracy : government of the ignorants)

It was Voltaire.


(for the Locke's quote : I believe that he was for the property right, inalienable, and this quote seems to show the inverse.)

Alas, all I remembered of Rousseau was his
jaundiced view of the benefit of human
technical advance, and I thought he might
have opted out of the program for Democracy
as well.

That was a good question, though, ask another.

 

[padisha emperor]

Who is the author of this allegory (translate from french too, sorry, the main ideas are in )

"You give the commandement of a ship to a captain, you give your body to a doctor. These are competent persons. That's why you can't give the government to the people, unable and ignorant to lead. Aristocracy is better, men command by their worse"


(JJ Rousseau : the absolute democracy, with the general will : absolute, eternal, undivisible, and unfaillible. >> dictatorship of the people, and open to the totalitarism)

 

[Said1]

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(for the Locke's quote : I believe that he was for the property right, inalienable, and this quote seems to show the inverse.)

It would seem that way at first glance wouldn't it. But, when thinking of the states purpose in Locke's' view, it makes a bit more sense.

 

[Annie]

It would seem that way at first glance wouldn't it. But, when thinking of the states purpose in Locke's' view, it makes a bit more sense.

Yep, it did. Reason I had added, 'or Marx'.