This collection holds 1,438 historical quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Henry Fielding, Collin Peterson and Mikhail Gorbachev.

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The dignity of history.

The banks run the place.

The new European Soviet.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

All typefaces are historical.

All societies are historical.

I love historical references.

Our aim is a democratic peace.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

I just love historical fiction.

History is rooted in the future

Kings are the slaves of history.

Idleness only leads to bad deeds

Without stones there is no arch.

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

The human heart will never wrinkle

Judaism is an historical religion.

We need a common enemy to unite us.

The midwife of history is violence.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

The goal of socialism is communism.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

I invented the historical spy novel.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Language is the archives of history.

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

All oppression creates a state of war.

The only winner today is big business.

I like mythology - anything historical.

History is a vast early warning system.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

The history of mankind is his character.

My drug of choice is historical research.

I am responsible only to God and history.

I don't normally do pure historical work.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Officers don't run, only corporals do that

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

These are the times for which we were born.

I love being educated by historical novels.

Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

A global economy requires a global currency.

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

Historical science is being left in the dust.

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