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History Quotes
"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."
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"It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Our Barbie-doll president, with his Barbie-doll wife and his boxful of Barbie-doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us; the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts on nights when the moon comes too close."
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"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
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"Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes."
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"I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie."
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"The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917."
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"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
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"We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily."
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"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that."
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"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."
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"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."
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"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"
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"More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England."
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"It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat."
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"Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility."
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"The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched."
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"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."
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"In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history."
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"There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta."
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"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."
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"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
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"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation."
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"Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves."
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"The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning."
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"I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances."
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"It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema."
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"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind."
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"Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings."
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"The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history."
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