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Jefferson Davis | History Quotes
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Tony Buzan
The world is historically mentally illiterate.
Harry S. Truman
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.




O. Henry
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
Hastings Ismay
On the w:Festival of Britain, "We are consciously and deliberately determined to make history."
John Updike | History Quotes
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
John Maynard Keynes
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
Benito Mussolini
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Robert A. Heinlein
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — i.e., none to speak of.
Carl Hayden
No man in Senate history has wielded more influence with less oratory.
Karl Marx | History Quotes
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.




Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
Dag Hammarskjold
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Helen Thomas
This is the worst President ever. He is the worst President in all of American history.
Edmund Cooper
But then history was made by fools.
Sebouh Chouldjian | History Quotes
The loss of historical memory is restored in the very place where one has lost it.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
Sir Thomas Browne
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
Janio Quadros
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.
Robert A. Heinlein
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.


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