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History Quotes - random


Felix Frankfurter | History Quotes
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
James A. Garfield
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.




Lajos Kossuth
History is the revelation of providence.
Lucian
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
When history moves - really moves - it does so in great convulsive jolts.
E. Lee Spence
My drug of choice is historical research.
Jim Goad
I can’t appreciate someone else’s history if I’m forced to reject and feel ashamed about mine.
Anonymous
history is like your social Security number. long, useless, but needed.
Henry Parry Liddon
The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.
Myth therefore seems to choose history, rather than be chosen by it.




Emil Cioran
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Harry Turtledove
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
Anonymous
History shows that life is the cheapest commodity.
Walter Benjamin
History breaks down in images not into stories.
Zinedine Zidane | History Quotes
Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
Abba Eban
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Czeslaw Milosz
He who invokes history is always secure.
The dead will not rise to witness against him.
Don DeLillo
I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
William Pfaff
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.


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