Quotes with history-or

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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • B. C. Forbes History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Ben Bernanke History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Bill Clinton History has shown us, that you can't allow the mass extermination of people, and just sit by and watch it happen.
    Time Magazine
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Alan Bean History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
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  • Jeane Kirkpatrick History is a better guide than good intentions.
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  • James Joyce History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Augustine Birrell History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
    Orbiter dicta
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • H.G. Wells History is a race between education and catastrophe.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Napoleon History is a set of lies agreed upon.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • George Santayana History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Lord Chesterfield History is but a confused heap of facts.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bill Nye History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Carl Sagan History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 36 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Voltaire History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edward Gibbon History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Lord John Whorfin History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
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