Famous Quotes: History

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?
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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
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We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
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Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
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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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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
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No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
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This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
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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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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?
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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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