History Quotes and Sayings
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. Dante Alighieri
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. Kofi Annan
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. John Quincy Adams
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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. Konrad Adenauer
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. Tony Blair
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte
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What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can. Samuel Butler
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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. Peter Berger
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry
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An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. Augustine Birrell
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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. Augustine Birrell
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Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. Augustine Birrell
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Libraries are not made, they grow. Augustine Birrell
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That great dust-heap called 'history'. Augustine Birrell
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In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. Hugo Black
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I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver
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Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it. Prince Charles
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland
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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. Christopher Columbus
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. Calvin Coolidge
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History is a vast early warning system. Norman Cousins
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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. Jacques Chirac
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. Jacques Chirac
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. Benjamin Disraeli
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I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. John Foster Dulles
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. Elizabeth II
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. Epicurus
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History is more or less bunk. Henry Ford
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Mohandas Gandhi
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. Charles de Gaulle
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. Barry Goldwater
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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. Frank Herbert
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. Herbert Hoover
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. Herbert Hoover
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. Herbert Hoover
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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. William Halsey
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. Henry James
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. William James
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson
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Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. Edward Kennedy
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? Jackie Kennedy
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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. Nikita Khrushchev
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. Ted Koppel
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. Vladimir Lenin
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. Douglas MacArthur
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. Douglas MacArthur
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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. Douglas MacArthur
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. Douglas MacArthur
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Thomas Moore
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Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. James Polk
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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. James Polk
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. William Manchester
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It's a very good historical book about history. Dan Quayle
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. Dan Quayle
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. Francois Mitterrand
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. Lance Morrow
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. Oliver North
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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. Evita Peron
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Time is my greatest enemy. Evita Peron
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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. Evita Peron
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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. Marge Piercy
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90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. Colin Powell
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. Colin Powell
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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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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. Joseph Stalin
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. Gertrude Stein
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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. James Stockdale
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Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. Anwar Sadat
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We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. Juan Antonio Samaranch
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. Tacitus
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. Margaret Thatcher
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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. Margaret Thatcher
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. Margaret Thatcher
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. Alexis de Tocqueville
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. Barbara Tuchman
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Desmond Tutu
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. Mark Twain
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. George Washington
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. Jessamyn West
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George Will
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World War II was the last government program that really worked. George Will
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Woodrow Wilson
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The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. Byron White
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. William Butler Yeats
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! Dwight Eisenhower
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. Dwight Eisenhower
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight Eisenhower
