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John Avlon | History Quotes
Politics is history in the present tense.
Wendell Berry
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
E. Lee Spence
My drug of choice is historical research.




Viktor Yushchenko
The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
Eugene V. Debs
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
"Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum.
Stephen R. Lawhead
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
Oscar Wilde
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Willa Cather
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
Catherine of Aragon
Nature wronged her in making her a woman. But for her sex she could have surpassed all the heros of history.
Franz Kafka | History Quotes
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.




Lloyd deMause
It is no wonder that historians have chosen to hide, deny and whitewash the record here uncovered.
Simon Bolivar
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
Anonymous
History is written by the victors.
Christopher Hitchens
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.
Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
John Updike
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
John Maynard Keynes
Ideas shape the course of history.
Leo Tolstoy
A king is history's slave.
Elie Wiesel
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.


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