Famous Quotes: History

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
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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.
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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
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Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.
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I want to go down in history.
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I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
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The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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