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Napoleon Bonaparte | History Quotes
If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.
Wendell Berry
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
William Bill Kristol
Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.




Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Alexander Pope
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Romain Gary | History Quotes
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
One of the most extraordinary men in history.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Eamon de Valera
All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.
Colum McCann | History Quotes
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.




John Henry Cardinal Newman
To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.
Socrates
We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.
Edmund Cooper
But then history was made by fools.
Marcus Aurelius
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
H. L. Mencken | History Quotes
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.
William Hazlitt
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
George Bernard Shaw
In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.
E. O. Wilson
In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...


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