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History Quotes - random


Ronald Reagan | History Quotes
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.
Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
Socrates
We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.




Janio Quadros
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.
Cicero
Quidem concessum est rhetoribus ementiri in historiis ut aliquid dicere possint argutius.
Aldo Leopold | History Quotes
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
David McNally (professor)
When history moves - really moves - it does so in great convulsive jolts.
Robert Aumann
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
H. L. Mencken | History Quotes
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.




Karl Marx
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
Frank Zappa
The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic ... in terms of music history.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
William Pitt
It is a considerable fact in the history of the world, that he was for four years King of England.
Simon Bolivar | History Quotes
In the course of history, there have been three radicals: Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and... me.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Larry Niven
8) History never repeats itself.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Steve Lyons
Pudge is so old, they didn't have history class when he went to school.


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