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Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Janio Quadros
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.
Franz Kafka
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.




Moses I. Finley
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
Felix Frankfurter
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Abba Eban | History Quotes
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Christopher Hitchens
[I am persuaded by] the materialist conception of history.
Thomas L. Friedman
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
Edwin Lefevre
History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.
Jack Kevorkian
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Robert Anton Wilson | History Quotes
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.




Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.
Christopher Hitchens
All postures of submission and surrender should be part of our prehistory.
David Cross
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.
Wendell Berry
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
Simon Bolivar | History Quotes
I’ve been plowing in the sea. Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and I — the three great mavericks of history.
Gustavo Gutierrez
The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
Zinedine Zidane
Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
Shimon Peres
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
Jorge Luis Borges
Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.


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