Richard II of England/first Crisis of 1386%e2%80%9388

Famous quotes containing the words richard, england and/or crisis:

    “Resolve to win—period—because that is the American system. You take either side—it doesn’t even matter which one—and you go on the attack.”
    —Donald Freed, U.S. screenwriter, and Arnold M. Stone. Robert Altman. Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall)

    “In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”
    —H.G. (Herbert George)

    “The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)