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Cicero | History Quotes
Quidem concessum est rhetoribus ementiri in historiis ut aliquid dicere possint argutius.
Simon Bolivar
In the course of history, there have been three radicals: Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and... me.
William O. Douglas
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.




George Saintsbury
Historians may lie, but History cannot.
James Fenton
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins,its transmission was oral.
Elie Wiesel | History Quotes
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Socrates
We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.
Jawaharlal Nehru
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
E. Lee Spence
My drug of choice is historical research.
Nayef Al-Rodan
Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
John Banville | History Quotes
Possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award.




William Bill Kristol
Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
Martin Buber
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
Leo Tolstoy
A king is history's slave.
Moses I. Finley | History Quotes
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
Glenn Beck
The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.
Ronald Reagan
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.
Dan Quayle
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
David Ben-Gurion
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.


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