“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
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“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.”
“A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.”
“Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.”
“History is more or less bunk.”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
“The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.”
“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.”
“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.”
“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”