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Thomas Carlyle | History Quotes
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
Edward Said
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
Robert A. Heinlein
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?




Van Morrison
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.
Glenn Beck
The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.
Laurence Sterne | History Quotes
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
John Updike
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
Norman Borlaug
"Some credit him with saving more human lives than any other person in history."
John Ashcroft
(Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
Clarence Darrow
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
Bob Dylan | History Quotes
I'd throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea, for they are mistakes of a past history.




Thomas Jefferson
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
Jorge Luis Borges
Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.
Karl Marx
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Nikita Khrushchev | History Quotes
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in. (We will bury you.)
William Bill Kristol
Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
Steve Lyons
Pudge is so old, they didn't have history class when he went to school.
Nayef Al-Rodan
The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.
Abraham Lincoln
Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: "He died an unbeliever."


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