Quotes with history

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

  Alan Greenspan
  American economist (1926 - )
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• 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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• 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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• History is a better guide than good intentions.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
   
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• History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

  James Joyce
  Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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• History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

  Orbiter dicta

  Augustine Birrell
  British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  H.G. Wells
  British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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• History is a set of lies agreed upon.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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• History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• History is but a confused heap of facts.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

  Lord John Whorfin
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• heartbreaking
• extermination
• immeasurable
• catastrophe
• perpetually
• photographs

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