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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
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History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Following the Equator (1897) -
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
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