“History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.”
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“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.”
“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
“If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.”
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”
“I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.”
“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.”
“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.”
“The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.”
“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”
“It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.”
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”
“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”
“Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.”
“Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.”
“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.”
“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”
“Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.”
“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.”