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Arthur Ransome | History Quotes
What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.
John McAfee
History is sympathetic to its authors.
James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.




Laura Penny
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Anonymous | History Quotes
History is not about who's right. It's about who's left.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
William O. Douglas
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
Hastings Ismay
On the w:Festival of Britain, "We are consciously and deliberately determined to make history."
Skye Jethani
History has shown syncretism to the culture is a chronic ailment of the church.
Norman Mailer | History Quotes
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.




Rabindranath Tagore
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,
unobscured by the dust of history.
Robert Penn Warren
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
Isaac Asimov
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Derren Brown
The greatest dinner party guest in history…or the scariest man in Britain – The Guardian
Adolf Hitler | History Quotes
Politics is history in the making.
Lucian
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
David Law Proudfit
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
T. B. Joshua
Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.
Felix Frankfurter
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.


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