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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Theodore Parker

So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men,

Charlton Heston

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

Harry S Truman

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments

Joseph Anderson

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

Edward Biggon

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea

Madalyn Murray O\'Hair

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Martin Luther

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Washington Irving

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Sonia Johnson

Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.

Al Gore

False history gets made all day, any day,the truth of the new is never on the news.

Adrienne Rich

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

David Ben Gurion

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

David McCullough

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

E. L. Doctorow

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

George Bernard Shaw

What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.

George Wilhelm Hegel

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Max Beerbohm

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

Roy P. Basler

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth.

Fustel de Coulanges

Writing intellectual history is like trying to nail jelly to the wall.

William Hesseltine

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

Fustel de Coulanges

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