Famous quotations

This page is meant for really famous quotations.
Please submit only quotations by historical figures and from works of art.
Therefore there should also be a page for celebrity quotations.
Perhaps later the page should divert into other categories.
I'd like to propose some rules that would make this page consistant :

• mark boundaries of entries with ----
• give
  • the quotation itself - "Veni, vidi, vici"
  • the author of quotation or to whom it is ascribed - Julius Caesar
  • who, when and where reported it - Plutarch in "Life of Julius Caesar"
  • context - Julius Caesar said the words in his letter to his friend Amatius reporting his quick victory over the king of Pont

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History is bunk.
Henry Ford
During trial vs "Chicago Tribune" in 1919

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Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre.
[Francois Rabelais]?
Said on his deathbed.

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J'accuse.
[Emile Zola]?
In defence of Alfred Dreyfus in 1898

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