951 private quotes tagged history

“Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” — Neil Armstrong

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“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.” — Anwar Sadat

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“Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.” — Mao Zedong

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“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” — Wendell Berry

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“When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.” — Evita Peron

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“You have to look at history as an evolution of society.” — Jean Chretien

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“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.” — Konrad Adenauer

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“We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.” — Tony Blair

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“There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.” — William Halsey

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“No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.” — Herbert Hoover

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“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.” — Kofi Annan

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“It's a very good historical book about history.” — Dan Quayle

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“Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.” — William O. Douglas

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“One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.” — William O. Douglas

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“History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.” — Ted Koppel

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“The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.” — A. Whitney Brown

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“Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.” — Victor Cousin

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“I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.” — Oliver North

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“The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.” — Ho Chi Minh

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“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.” — Ilka Chase

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