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Joseph Stalin

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.

John F. Kennedy

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

William James

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 mi

John F. Kennedy

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Richard M. Nixon

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing

Joseph Stalin

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.

Livy	History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see, and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine thing

Walter Lippmann

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

David Lowenthal

The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place... but their past is not simply back there, in a separate and foreign country, it is assimilated in ourselves and resurrected in an ever-changing

Naguib Mahfouz

I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

George Orwell

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

Friedrich von Schiller

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppress

Gustav Spet

Nihil est in intellectu, quod non fuerit in historia, et omne, quod fuit in historia, deberet esse in intellectu.

William Butler Yeats

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.

George Will

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

George Will

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Theodore White

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

Byron R. White

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Jessamyn West

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Desmond Tutu

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.

Stansfield Turner

We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.

Barbara Tuchman

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.

Harry S. Truman

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

Arnold J. Toynbee

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Margaret Thatcher

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

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.

Margaret Thatcher

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Tacitus

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.

Horace Sutton

Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.

James Stockdale

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Gertrude Stein

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Joseph Stalin

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.

David M. Shoup

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

Haile Selassie

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

George Santayana

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

Juan Antonio Samaranch

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Ronald Reagan

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.

Dan Quayle

It's a very good historical book about history.

Colin Powell

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

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.

James Polk

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

James Polk

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.

Marge Piercy

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Evita Peron

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Evita Peron

Time is my greatest enemy.

Evita Peron

There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radish.

Evita Peron

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Carl Sandburg

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Michel Foucault

For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of thought as distinct both from the history of ideas (by which I mean the analysis of systems of representation) and from the history of mentalities (by which I me

George Frost Kennan

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Henry Ford

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

George Bernard Shaw

Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

E. L. Doctorow

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Albert Camus

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Kahlil Gibran

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Paul Gauguin

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Harold Walker

When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.

Eric Hoffer

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern

Dan Quayle

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Richard M. Nixon

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Livy	History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see, and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine thing

Aldous Huxley

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

James A. Baldwin

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Thomas Sowell

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

Harry S Truman

The only new thing is history we don't know.

Rodney Dangerfield

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

Dionysius

History is philosophy teaching by example.

Dan Quayle

It's a very good historical book about history.

Barbara Tuchman

History is the unfolding of miscalculation.

James Joyce

History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

History is full of surprises.

Stephen Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Marge Piercy

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Nikita Khrushchev

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

We are all citizens of history.

Franklin P. Jones

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What is history but a fable agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Benjamin Disraeli

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Philip Guedalla

History repeats itself historians repeat each other.

Edward R. Murrow

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Konrad Adenauer

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

John Still

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

Ted Koppel

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Mark Twain

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

A. Whitney Brown

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

John Maynard Keynes

Ideas shape the course of history.

Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Arthur F. Sheldon

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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

"We are just passing through history. This IS history!" -- Belloq

"The history of Liberty is the history of resistance."

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

History is bunk.

I am responsible only to God and history.

History is more or less bunk.

Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.

History tends to exaggerate.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

History repeats itself because nobody listens.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

It's an History is a set of lies agreed upon by the Victors.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

For at the end of history lies the undiscovered country.

History is a vision of God???s creation on the move.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Civilization - biggest syntax error in history!

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Those who don???t build must burn. It???s as old as history and juvenile delinquence.

Well behaved women seldom make history.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

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