"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."

History, People

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"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."

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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

History, Responsibility, Colonialism, Obligation

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

History, Reflection, Understanding, Mystery

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

History, People, Events, Lies

"Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day."

Caleb Cushing, American Diplomat

History, Country, Day, Debate

"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

History, People, Idea

"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

History, Ideology, Influence, Politics

"Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."

Bernhard von Bulow, German Statesman

History, Life, Development, Fight

"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

Pierre Schaeffer, French Composer

History, Civilization, Hope, Will

"We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective."

Waylon Jennings, American Musician

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"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."

Experience, Validity

"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?"

Society, First, Greed, Russia

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

Power, Intentions

"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

Architecture, Government, Science, Civilization

"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."

People, Freedom

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

Government, Nothing

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

Government, Years

"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"

Self,

"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way."

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"The power to do good is also the power to do harm."

Power, Harm