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Napoleon Bonaparte | History Quotes
What then is, generally speaking, the [[truth of history? A fable agreed upon.
Simon Bolivar
We have sewn the sea — Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and me: the three great fools of history...
Steve Maraboli
Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself.




Benito Mussolini
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Brian Hanrahan
He saw more than his share of history unfold.
George Saintsbury | History Quotes
Historians may lie, but History cannot.
Edmund Cooper
But then history was made by fools.
Jefferson Davis
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Edmund Cooper
There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.
Plutarch
These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
Tom Clancy | History Quotes
My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel ... and I read a lot of history.




Viktor Yushchenko
The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
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.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus
Tommy Lee
I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.
James A. Garfield | History Quotes
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
Henry St John
They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
Len Deighton
Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Kenneth Waltz
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.


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