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Inspirational Quotes about History
Henry B. Adams quotes
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Rating:
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John Quincy Adams quotes
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. Rating:
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Konrad Adenauer quotes
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. Rating:
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Dante Alighieri quotes
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. Rating:
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Kofi Annan quotes
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. Rating:
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Susan B. Anthony quotes
Failure is impossible. Rating:
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Neil Armstrong quotes
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Rating:
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James A. Baldwin quotes
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. Rating:
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Peter Berger quotes
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. Rating:
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Wendell Berry quotes
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. Rating:
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Ambrose Bierce quotes
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Rating:
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Augustine Birrell quotes
Libraries are not made, they grow. Rating:
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Augustine Birrell quotes
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. Rating:
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Augustine Birrell quotes
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. Rating:
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Augustine Birrell quotes
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. Rating:
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Augustine Birrell quotes
That great dust-heap called 'history'. Rating:
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Hugo Black quotes
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. Rating:
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Tony Blair quotes
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. Rating:
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Napoleon Bonaparte quotes
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Rating:
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Napoleon Bonaparte quotes
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Rating:
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Napoleon Bonaparte quotes
What is history but a fable agreed upon? Rating:
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Louis D. Brandeis quotes
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Rating:
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Louis D. Brandeis quotes
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. Rating:
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A. Whitney Brown quotes
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. Rating:
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George W. Bush quotes
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. Rating:
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Samuel Butler quotes
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. Rating:
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Julius Caesar quotes
I came, I saw, I conquered. Rating:
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George Washington Carver quotes
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. Rating:
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Prince Charles quotes
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. Rating:
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Jacques Chirac quotes
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. Rating:
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Jacques Chirac quotes
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. Rating:
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Winston Churchill quotes
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Rating:
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Grover Cleveland quotes
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. Rating:
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Christopher Columbus quotes
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. Rating:
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Confucius quotes
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Rating:
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Calvin Coolidge quotes
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. Rating:
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Norman Cousins quotes
History is a vast early warning system. Rating:
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