951 private quotes tagged history

“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” — Aristotle

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“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” — Mason Cooley

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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.” — Karl Marx

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“History is more or less bunk.” — Henry Ford

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“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.” — Eddie Izzard

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” — Robert Fulghum

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“Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.” — Augustine Birrell

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“I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.” — John Thune

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“Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.” — Edward Kennedy

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“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.” — William Morris

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“The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.” — James McGreevey

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“The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.” — Lee Myung-bak

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“I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.” — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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