951 private quotes tagged history

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

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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 history of art is the history of revivals.” — Samuel Butler

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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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“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.” — Walt Whitman

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“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.” — George Eliot

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“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?” — Carl Jung

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

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

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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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“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 Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.” — Dave Barry

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“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.” — Rebecca West

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

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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.” — Harry S. Truman

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“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.” — Karl Marx

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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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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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