Famous Quotes: History

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
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The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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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.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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History is a vast early warning system.
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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