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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.
Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.
A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.