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Robert A. Heinlein | History Quotes
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — i.e., none to speak of.
Kurt Vonnegut
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
Bob Dylan
I'd throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea, for they are mistakes of a past history.




Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.
George Bernard Shaw
In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.
John Updike
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.
Napoleon Bonaparte | History Quotes
What then is, generally speaking, the [[truth of history? A fable agreed upon.




Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.
Marcus Aurelius
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
Wallace Stevens
All history is modern history.
Richard Dawkins
Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.
Vladimir Lenin | History Quotes
History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.
H. L. Mencken
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.
Leo Tolstoy
A king is history's slave.
William Hazlitt
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.


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