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History Quotes - random


Napoleon Bonaparte | History Quotes
What then is, generally speaking, the [[truth of history? A fable agreed upon.
Jose Rizal
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
T. B. Joshua
Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.




Robert Roy MacGregor
Honor made him a man. Courage made him a hero. History made him a Legend.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Mark Twain | History Quotes
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
Kenneth Clark
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
Simon Bolivar
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Walter Benjamin | History Quotes
History breaks down in images not into stories.




Ronald Reagan
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.
Norman Borlaug
"Some credit him with saving more human lives than any other person in history."
Thomas Carlyle
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
David Law Proudfit
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
James Clerk Maxwell | History Quotes
Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
Norman Cousins
History is a vast early warning system.
Anatole Broyard
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
Steve Lyons
Pudge is so old, they didn't have history class when he went to school.


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