History Quotes
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James
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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn`t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Dick Gregory
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell
Thomas Merton
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Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Thomas Griffith
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Biography is the only true history
Thomas Carlyle
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[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Theodore Parker
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We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
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It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate ...
Senator John Kerry
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History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.
Senator John Kerry
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When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change ...
Senator John Kerry
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The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself.
Senator John Kerry
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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben
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The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory
Robert Green Ingersoll
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death
Robert Fulghum
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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert Francis Kennedy
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward Murrow
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon
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Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.
Richard Kluger
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
7 Zuma 7
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
7 Zuma 7
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren`t there.
George Santayana
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I don`t want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns
Mitch Ratcliffe
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Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice
Louis Kronenberger
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