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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.
Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
There is a history which has to be reversed, and that is the demolition of our temples.
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."
The history books will remember the Chinese doctors who sounded the alarm about COVID-19.
[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.