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S. M. Stirling | History Quotes
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Lajos Kossuth
History is the revelation of providence.
Marcus Aurelius
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.




Alexis de Tocqueville
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
Stephanie Zacharek
This sprawling epic is as lively as a natural history museum diorama.
Elie Wiesel | History Quotes
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Ronald Reagan
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.
James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
Nayef Al-Rodan
Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
Walter Benjamin
History breaks down in images not into stories.
Derren Brown | History Quotes
The greatest dinner party guest in history…or the scariest man in Britain – The Guardian




William Hazlitt
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Catherine of Aragon
Nature wronged her in making her a woman. But for her sex she could have surpassed all the heros of history.
Thomas Carlyle
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
Tony Buzan
The world is historically mentally illiterate.
George Henry Lewes | History Quotes
The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".
George Bernard Shaw
In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.
Jacques Ellul
I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Richard Nixon
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.


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