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Benito Mussolini | History Quotes
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
George Saintsbury
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.




Robert Walpole
Anything but history, for history must be false.
James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
Cees Nooteboom | History Quotes
Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.
Nayef Al-Rodan
The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.
Jacques Barzun
I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.
Benjamin Disraeli
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.
Levon Ter-Petrossian | History Quotes
16 years...a very short and very long time, when it comes to Armenia's history.




Harry S. Truman
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
E. O. Wilson
In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
James Fenton
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins,its transmission was oral.
Brian Hanrahan
He saw more than his share of history unfold.
Eugene V. Debs | History Quotes
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Auguste Comte
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
Alan Sugar
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
Henry St John
They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
Dag Hammarskjold
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.


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