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Thomas Carlyle | History Quotes
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Hastings Ismay
On the w:Festival of Britain, "We are consciously and deliberately determined to make history."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.




Laurence Sterne
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Frank Zappa
The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic ... in terms of music history.
John Ashcroft | History Quotes
(Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
Lucian
In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable.
Jim Goad
I can’t appreciate someone else’s history if I’m forced to reject and feel ashamed about mine.
Simon Bolivar
Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and I: three greatest fools of history.
Nikita Khrushchev
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in. (We will bury you.)
Len Deighton | History Quotes
Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.




Abraham Lincoln
Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: "He died an unbeliever."
Van Morrison
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.
John Maynard Keynes
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
Kurt Vonnegut
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
Robert Penn Warren | History Quotes
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
Nayef Al-Rodan
Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
Thomas Jefferson
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Robert A. Heinlein
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get “tired of being shoved around.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman
To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.


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