951 private quotes tagged history

“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“The history of the world is the world's court of justice.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.” — Anatole France

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

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“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.” — Francis Bacon

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“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” — Harry S. Truman

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“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“History is a race between education and catastrophe.” — H. G. Wells

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“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” — Charles Darwin

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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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“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.” — Pablo Picasso

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“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” — Martin Luther

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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 art is the history of revivals.” — Samuel Butler

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“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.” — Karl Marx

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