The following pages of quotes have all appeared on previous AP Euro exams.
Quotes from Machiavelli:
"A prince should do good if possible, but be prepared to do evil if necessary."
"Fear of punishment makes men behave."
"People prize order more than liberty."
"People hate me because I reveal the secrets of their power."
"The ends justifies the means."
"Those who know how to trick others, have kept their power."
"War channels ambition."
"Love is a bond men break when it suits them."
"War is with us. It is a fact. It cannot be avoided, only deferred."
"Those who know how to trick, keep power. Those who've kept their word, have fallen."
"Cruelty can be used properly."
"I've tried to present things as they are, not as we want them to be."
"He who forgets what is, for what should be, is soon ruined."
"War or the prospect of war, causes people to turn to the leader."
"It is safer to be feared than to be loved, when you have to choose between the two."
"A prince should combine the cunning of a fox with the ferocity of a lion."
"Fear of punishment makes men behave."
"People prize order more than liberty."
"People hate me because I reveal the secrets of their power."
"The ends justifies the means."
"Those who know how to trick others, have kept their power."
"War channels ambition."
"Love is a bond men break when it suits them."
"War is with us. It is a fact. It cannot be avoided, only deferred."
"Those who know how to trick, keep power. Those who've kept their word, have fallen."
"Cruelty can be used properly."
"I've tried to present things as they are, not as we want them to be."
"He who forgets what is, for what should be, is soon ruined."
"War or the prospect of war, causes people to turn to the leader."
"It is safer to be feared than to be loved, when you have to choose between the two."
"A prince should combine the cunning of a fox with the ferocity of a lion."
Quotes from Erasmus:
"I laid a Hen's egg: Luther hatched a bird of a different breed."
Quotes from Thomas More:
"Money is the root of all evil."
Quotes from the Age of Exploration:
"What on Earth have you come seeking?" ~ Indigenous Person
"Christians and spices." ~ Vasco de Gama
"I have come to win gold, not plow the fields like a peasant." ~ Hernando Cortes
"To serve His majesty, and to give light to those who were in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do so." ~ Bartholomew Diaz
"The fact that these people journey so far from home to conquer territory indicates clearly that there must be very little justice and a great deal of greed among them... This had made them fly over all the waters in order to acquire the possessions that God did not give them." ~ Local Leader in Asia
"We come here to serve God and the king... but also to get rich." ~ Spanish Conquistador
The discovery of the west and east Indies was "the greatest event since the creation of the world apart from the incarnation and death of Him who created it." ~ Charles V
"Christians and spices." ~ Vasco de Gama
"I have come to win gold, not plow the fields like a peasant." ~ Hernando Cortes
"To serve His majesty, and to give light to those who were in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do so." ~ Bartholomew Diaz
"The fact that these people journey so far from home to conquer territory indicates clearly that there must be very little justice and a great deal of greed among them... This had made them fly over all the waters in order to acquire the possessions that God did not give them." ~ Local Leader in Asia
"We come here to serve God and the king... but also to get rich." ~ Spanish Conquistador
The discovery of the west and east Indies was "the greatest event since the creation of the world apart from the incarnation and death of Him who created it." ~ Charles V
Quotes from Winston Churchill:
"From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."
"Victory has been bought at a price so dear as to be indistinguishable from defeat."
"Victory has been bought at a price so dear as to be indistinguishable from defeat."
Quotes on Imperialism:
"The sea bathes our coast, the world lies below us." ~ Leopold II
"There has never been a great power without great colonies." ~ French publicist, 1877
"The path of progress is strewn with the wreck... of inferior races... yet these dead peoples are, in very truth, the stepping stones on which mankind has risen to the higher intellectual and deeper emotional life of today."
"The strongest nation has always been conquering the weaker... and the strongest tend to be the best."
"There has never been a great power without great colonies." ~ French publicist, 1877
"The path of progress is strewn with the wreck... of inferior races... yet these dead peoples are, in very truth, the stepping stones on which mankind has risen to the higher intellectual and deeper emotional life of today."
"The strongest nation has always been conquering the weaker... and the strongest tend to be the best."