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Ralph Waldo Emerson | History Quotes
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
Henry St John
They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
Laura Penny
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.




Joseph Heller
"The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know history?"
William O. Douglas
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
Anonymous | History Quotes
History is not about who's right. It's about who's left.
Arthur C. Clarke
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Lloyd deMause
It is no wonder that historians have chosen to hide, deny and whitewash the record here uncovered.
Russell T Davies
Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Ha-Joon Chang | History Quotes
History is on the side of the regulators.




Benazir Bhutto
It is not a sad day ... it is the darkest, gloomiest day in the history of this country.
James Barr
The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one.
Alan Sugar
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
Stephen R. Lawhead
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
E. O. Wilson | History Quotes
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
William the Silent
In patriotic history William was the little David sent against the Spanish Goliath.
Steve Lyons
Pudge is so old, they didn't have history class when he went to school.
Dan Quayle
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Jacques Barzun
I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.


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