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History Quotes
"We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section."
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"We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability."
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"The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?"
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"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."
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"Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle."
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"A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths."
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"Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history."
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"The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example."
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"I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed on a traffic accident. Two months after, King Philippe found in a gutter, deceased- it really is a bad stretch of road. Philippe's heirs and assigns having coincidentally expired, end of the monarchy, reign of M.Danton."
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"Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk."
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"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power."
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"It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story."
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"The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history."
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"There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did."
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"If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say 'Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history."
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"Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge."
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"The famous split windowSplits had the KDF dash until 1953, which had two glove compartments. Note rear "w bonnet and small round taillights. There were no indicators like today's cars " just pop-up indicators that work with an electric servo, called 'trafficators' or 'semaphores'. 6v electrics. Small, flat front windscreen."
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"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history."
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"History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times."
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"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."
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"In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles."
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"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
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"The best prophet of the future is the past."
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"It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way."
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"I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief."
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"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany."
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"I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history."
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"Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before."
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"Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland."
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"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization."
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"The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed."
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"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down."
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"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."
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"The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former."
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"Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values."
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"We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things."
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